MCNAMARA, Hubert Victor
| Service Number: | 54009 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 April 1915, 5 year Garrison Artillery |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 33rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia, 25 May 1887 |
| Home Town: | Merewether, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Painter |
| Died: | Merewether, New South Wales, Australia, 30 May 1927, aged 40 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 1-26. 74. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Apr 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 54009, 33rd Infantry Battalion, 5 year Garrison Artillery | |
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| 19 Jun 1918: | Involvement Private, 54009, 1st to 15th (NSW) Reinforcements, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Field Marshal embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 19 Jun 1918: | Embarked Private, 54009, 1st to 15th (NSW) Reinforcements, SS Field Marshal, Sydney | |
| 4 Feb 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 54009, 33rd Infantry Battalion, ER Cpl 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell
A Returned Digger from The Great War resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
95 years ago today, on the Tuesday afternoon of the 31st May 1927, ER/Corporal Hubert Victor McNamara, 33rd Battalion (Reg No-54009), painter from 4 Burwood Street, Merewether, New South Wales, father of three (Victor, George & Norma), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 40. CATHOLIC 1-26. 74.
Born at Queanbeyan, New South Wales on the 24th May 1887 (as HERBERT V) to Michael and Eleanor (Ellen) H McNamara; husband of Elizabeth Laurie McNamara nee Morris (married 1911, Sydney, N.S.W., died 1940, sleeping here), Hubert enlisted May 1917 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 24.10.1918 (influenza), 20.11.1918 (not stated).
Hubert returned home January 1920, being discharged on the 4th February 1920.
Was not awarded the Victory Medal.
Mr. McNamara’s name has not been inscribed on the Merewether (Mitchell Park) Memorial Gates or the Newcastle Operative Painters & Decorators Honour Roll or any known War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
There is no indication inscribed on the family headstone plaque of Hubert’s service with the 1st A.I.F., so I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label in remembrance of his sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
Lest We Forget.
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