O'MEARA, John
| Service Number: | 1398 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 November 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Kempsey, NSW, 1892 |
| Home Town: | Tamworth, Tamworth Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Coach Painter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 7 August 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Lone Pine Cemetery, ANZAC Special Memorial C 124, Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Nov 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1398, 2nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 11 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 1398, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 1398, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of John and Alice O'MEARA, Kempsey, Macleay River, New South Wales
KILLED IN ACTION.
Further tidings of the doings of Australian troops at the Dardanelles conveyed the sad news that Pte. Jack O'Meara, son of Mr. John O'Meara, of Tamworth, and nephew of Ald. Win. O'Meara, of Kempsey, had been killed in action. This coming so soon on top of his recent cheery letter that he would be home at Christmas proved a shock not only to his own relatives, but also to the wide circle of friends of the family. Deceased, who was 23 years of age, had been reared by his uncle and aunt from he was nine months old and was with his two year older brother, treated with more than parental affection. When the call for volunteers was made, Jack, full of the joy of youth and the ardour of a sportsman, laid down his tools of trade and enlisted. That was nine months ago ; and since then he came unscathed through the ever memorable landing on the 25th April, and twenty hand-to-hand engagements with the foe, to fall at last in the desperate assault on Lonesome Pine.
The mates of the deceased soldier will miss him in the work shop and the playing fields, but they will cherish a bright thought of his straightforward and manly adherence to the principles of his honest upbringing. As a tribute to his memory many members of other denominations, as well as representatives of the Manchester Unity were present at the requiem mass held on Tuesday morning last in All Saints' Catholic Churcb, West Kempsey.
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