SHEEDY, Francis James
| Service Number: | 914 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 November 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Company Quartermaster Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Broadmeadow, New South Wales, Australia, 7 August 1888 |
| Home Town: | Broadmeadows, Clarence Valley, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Carter |
| Died: | Georgetown, New South Wales, Australia, 6 August 1962, aged 73 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Newcastle (Sandgate) War Cemetery CATHOLIC 1-17. 39. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 914, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 914, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 7 Aug 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
| 16 Aug 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Sergeant, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
| 18 Jul 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Sergeant, 914, 35th Infantry Battalion, SW right shoulder | |
| 27 Nov 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 914, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
| 15 Dec 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Company Quartermaster Sergeant, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
| 6 May 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Company Quartermaster Sergeant, 914, 35th Infantry Battalion, GSW to left thigh - severe | |
| 12 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Company Quartermaster Sergeant, 914, 35th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
58 years ago today, on the 8th August 1962, Company Quartermaster Sergeant Francis (Frank) James Sheedy, 35th Battalion, carter from Waratah Road, Broadmeadow, New South Wales and 21 Union Street, Adamstown, N.S.W. and St James Road, New Lambton, N.S.W. and 23 Asher Street, Georgetown, N.S.W., father of one, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 73. CATHOLIC 1-17. 39.
Born at Broadmeadow, New South Wales on the 7th August 1888 to John and Mary Sheedy; husband of Ethel Victoria Sheedy nee Purcell (married 1920, New Lambton, N.S.W., died 1929), Frank enlisted November 1915 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Wounded in action - 18.7.1917 (GSW right shoulder), 6.5.1918 (GSW left thigh, severe), Frank returned home June 1919, being discharged on the 12th August 1919.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140074547
Mr Sheedy’s name has been inscribed on the Adamstown Loyal Pride (126) M.U., I.O.O.F. Roll of Honour (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137099947, unveiled on the 17th March 1916, whereabouts unknown), Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows Roll of Honour, Hamilton Municipal District Roll of Honor and the Hamilton (Gregson Park) War Memorial (photos, unveiled on the 20th May 1922).
There is no headstone at the family gravesite to tell us of Frank’s service and sacrifice with the 1st A.I.F., now forgotten, so August 2015 I placed a cross on the gravesite, taken a photo of the grave and uploaded the photo onto the Northern Cemetery website as a permanent record of his service.
http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/index.php/war-heroes/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103&aso=exact&s_f=id&data_search=20480#3
I will be submitting an application to DVA asking for official commemoration at Mr Sheedy’s gravesite.
Lest We Forget.
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