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DRADDY, John Thomas Patrick
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | 665 |
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Enlisted: | 9 February 1917 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 41st Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Ballycotton, East Cork, Ireland. , 1 November 1896 |
Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
Schooling: | Ballycotton National School, Ireland |
Occupation: | Farmer |
Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 21 February 1918, aged 21 years |
Cemetery: |
London Rifle Brigade Cemetery INSCRIPTION - IN LOVING MEMORY BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK R.I.P. Grave IV. C. 4. |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brisbane 41st Battalion Roll of Honour |
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
41st Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
He was 21 and the son of Thomas and Ellen Draddy, of Ballycotton, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Ballycotton (Irish: Baile Choitín) is a coastal village in County Cork, Ireland, situated about 25 miles east of Cork city]
He is one of three Australian soldier casualties of the Great War who are remembered on the Midleton World War I Memorial in Distillery Road, Midleton Co. Cork