Michael Patrick (Mick) EGAN

EGAN, Michael Patrick

    Service Number: 6257
    Enlisted: 3 April 1916, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
    Born: Colac, Victoria, 9 July 1895
    Home Town: Maylands, Bayswater, Western Australia
    Schooling: Colac Public School
    Occupation: Farm hand/Tram conductor
    Died: Natural causes (heart condition), Glendalough, Western Australia, 10 December 1966, aged 71 years
    Cemetery: Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia
    LA 0286
    Memorials: Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Pingelly Taylors Well District Roll of Honour
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    World War 1 Service

    3 Apr 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6257, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia
    13 Oct 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 6257, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: ''
    13 Oct 1916: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 6257, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Suffolk, Fremantle
    11 Apr 1917: Wounded Private, 6257, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Bullecourt (First), GSW (right thigh)
    11 Apr 1917: Imprisoned Bullecourt (First)
    29 May 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6257, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)

    Colac brothers ww1

    The three brothers all fought in ww1
    Thomas Egan fought at Galloppli and was killed in action at lone pine 1915
    John Peter fought in the Middle East with the 3rd light horse and in buried in karrkatta cemerty with his parent John and Josephine Egan
    My grandfather Michael Patrick Egan is buried in Karrkatta with his wife Gertrude and son Stanley ( Ran )

    Submitted 11 August 2018 by Michael Joseph Egan

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