Vincent John O'BRIEN

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Service Numbers:	4352, Q155253
Enlisted:	15 February 1916, Enlisted at Toowoomba, QLD
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	15th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Dalby, Queensland Australia, 20 January 1898
Home Town:	Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Hand
Died:	Queensland, Australia, 21 June 1986, aged 88 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane 6 ANZ, Grave 1356
Memorials:	Toowoomba Roll of Honour WW1

15 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4352, 31st Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Toowoomba, QLD
17 Nov 1916:	Embarked Private, 4352, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kyarra, Brisbane
17 Nov 1916:	Involvement Private, 4352, 31st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: ''
15 Jun 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 15th Infantry Battalion, From 31st Batttalion
25 Aug 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 4352, 15th Infantry Battalion, Gassed.
16 Sep 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4352, 15th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 1st Military District as medically unfit

16 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Q155253, At Brisbane, QLD
23 Mar 1945:	Discharged AIF WW1, Q155253, Discharged at the 1st Military District

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Son of Charles Albert O'Brien and Ellen O'Brien nee Beattie of Dalby. QLD.

Next of kin given as his sister Agnes O'Brien of Nudgee Orphanage, Brisbane, QLD.

Commenced return to Australia on 19 June 1919 aboard HT Miltiades disembarking on 8 August 1918 at Sydney for onward travel to Brisbane

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

On 28 January 1920 Vincent married Lily Annie Isabel Hanscomb in QLD

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