CURRAN, John Joseph
| Service Number: | NX16019 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 May 1940, Paddington, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/13th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Coolamon, New South Wales, Australia , 4 September 1916 |
| Home Town: | Yenda, Griffith, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | House Painter |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Egypt, 20 February 1943, aged 26 years |
| Cemetery: |
Heliopolis War Cemetery 3 D 16 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Griffith Cenotaph, Yenda WW2 War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Corporal, NX16019 | |
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| 21 May 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, NX16019, 2nd/13th Infantry Battalion, Paddington, NSW | |
| 30 Aug 1942: | Honoured Military Medal |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sandra Barry
Son of John Joseph and Elizabeth Delila Curran, of Yenda, New South Wales, Australia.
REST IN PEACE. A DUTIFUL SON WHO DIED NOBLY FOR HIS COUNTRY
Lance Corporal Curran died of wounds sustained in teh Libyan campaign. He joined the AIF very early in the war, and was one of the Rats of Tobruk during the long seige. He was awarded the Military Medal for gallantry in the field of action. John is buried at Helleoplis, Cairo.
Citation for Military Medal - LANCE-CORPORAL JOHN JOSEPH CURRAN, M.M., since dead, inspired his men at all times while he was in charge of a mortar detachment on a hill in the El Alamein coastal sector for about five weeks, under heavy artillery fire.
On Saturday morning, Mr. and Mrs. J. Curran, of Yenda, received a telegram from the Army authorities, saying that their eldest son, Lance Corporal John Joseph Curran, had died on the 20th January, in the Cairo Hospital as a result of wounds received just four months ago at the start of the latest Libyan campaign.
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