Bryan Desmond O'NEIL MC

Bryan Desmond O'NEIL MC Update Details

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Service Number:	177
Enlisted:	1 June 1915, Enlisted at WA
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	36th Heavy Artillery Group
Born:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, June 1893
Home Town:	Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Soldier
Died:	Geraldton, Western Australia, 28 October 1978, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Utakarra Cemetery, Geraldton, Western Australia Catholic area, Row 12, Grave 2. Interred on 31 October 1978
Memorials:

1 Jun 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Bombardier, 177, Siege Artillery Brigade, Enlisted at WA
17 Jul 1915:	Involvement Bombardier, 177, Siege Artillery Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: ''
17 Jul 1915:	Embarked Bombardier, 177, Siege Artillery Brigade, HMAT Orsova, Melbourne
15 Jul 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 36th Heavy Artillery Group
3 Jun 1919:	Honoured Military Cross, London Gazette on 3 June 1919, page 6838, position 35. Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 15 September 1919, page 1371, position 101
2 Oct 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 36th Heavy Artillery Group, Drged at the 5th Military District

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Address at the time of enlistment was Blackby Hill, WA.

Son of George O'Neil and Ada O'Neil nee Warr of Cottesloe, WA.

Commenced return to Australia on 2 June 1919 aboard HT Konigin Luise disembarking on 18 July 1919

Medals: Military Cross, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1943c Bryan married Anne Eleanor Howard Calvett in Perth, WA