
CONNORS, Cyril Ernest
Service Numbers: | 639, N393474 |
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Enlisted: | 1 October 1914, Liverpool, New South Wales |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 8 Garrison Battalion (NSW) |
Born: | Meroo, New South Wales, Australia, 23 April 1888 |
Home Town: | Berry, Shoalhaven Shire, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Horsebreaker and Studmaster |
Died: | Died of Illness, Yaralla Military Hospital, Concord, New South Wales, Australia, 17 June 1942, aged 54 years |
Cemetery: |
Alstonville Cemetery, NSW RC section - Row 9, Grave 13 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Baerami Creek Roll of Honour WW2, Berry Honour Roll |
Biography
Served in both WW1 and WW2.
WW1 Rank - Warrant Officer 2
1 Camel Brigade; 6th Light Horse Regiment
Returned to Australia 15 November 1918
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Son of Thomas and Susan Connors; husband of Vera Agnes Connors, of Lismore. Father of Margaret Mary Sheppard nee Connors of Ferny Hills Queenlsand Brother of 4474 Gunner Erice Sylvester Connors, 11th Field Artillery Brigade, killed in action, 30 December 1916
WW2 service number was N393474
Rank - Private
Enlisted 19 January 1942at Adamstown, New South Wales
Discharged 18 June 1942
War Medal