John Thomas Patrick DRADDY

DRADDY, John Thomas Patrick

Service Number: 665
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
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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