Cecil Thomas MADIGAN MiD

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MADIGAN, Cecil Thomas

Service Number:	N271634
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, 14 January 1947, aged 57 years
Cemetery:	Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia C of E Plot - Path K - Grave 2141
Memorials:	Adelaide High School Great War Honour Board, Adelaide University of Adelaide WW1 Honour Roll, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

11 Nov 1918:	Involvement Royal Engineers

3 Jun 1941:	Involvement Lieutenant Colonel, N271634
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

Date unknown:	Involvement Unspecified British Units

Biography 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

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