MADIGAN, Cecil Thomas
Service Number: | N271634 |
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Enlisted: | 3 June 1941, Paddington, NSW |
Last Rank: | Lieutenant Colonel |
Last Unit: | Divisional Engineers Headquarters |
Born: | Renmark, South Australia, 15 October 1889 |
Home Town: | Merrylands, Holroyd, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Adelaide High School; Prince Alfred College; University of Adelaide; Magdalen College, Oxford |
Occupation: | Army Officer, Explorer, Geologist, Meteorologist, Academic & Aerial Surveyor, |
Died: | Illness, Adelaide, South Australia, South Australia, Australia, 14 January 1947, aged 57 years |
Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia C of E Plot - Path K - Grave 2141 (GRM/5) , Centennial Park Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
Memorials: | Adelaide High School Great War Honour Board, Adelaide University of Adelaide WW1 Honour Roll, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Royal Engineers |
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World War 2 Service
3 Jun 1941: | Involvement Lieutenant Colonel, N271634 | |
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3 Jun 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant Colonel, N271634 | |
3 Jun 1941: | Enlisted Paddington, NSW | |
17 Oct 1943: | Involvement Australian Army (Post WW2), Lieutenant Colonel, N271634, Divisional Engineers Headquarters | |
18 Oct 1943: | Discharged |
World War 1 Service
Date unknown: | Involvement Unspecified British Units |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Kathleen Bambridge
Captain CT Madigan a Remark boy who graduated at Adelaide University, did distinguished service with Mawson in the Antarctic and relinquished a Rhodes Scholarship in oreder to enlist, has now undertaken to do geological work for the Imperial Government in the Soudan and his head quarters will be in Kahartoum. Captain Madigan took ther honors degree in Oxford, after having been demobilised from the Imperial Army in which he served with the Royal Engineers. An Adventurous Digger Diggers Gazett 13 march 1920 p. 61