OSMOND, John Oliver
| Service Number: | 513 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 March 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 4th Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | London, England, October 1894 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Fireman |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 9 October 1980, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Albany Creek Memorial Park-Cemetery & Crematorium, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 513, 3rd Machine Gun Company | |
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| 23 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 513, 3rd Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 513, 3rd Machine Gun Company, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne | |
| 29 Jul 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 4th Machine Gun Company, France | |
| 9 Aug 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 513, 4th Machine Gun Company, France: shell wound right arm, invalided to England | |
| 12 May 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 513, 4th Machine Gun Company, embarked for RTA per HT Port Napier | |
| 13 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 513, 4th Machine Gun Company |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lance Corporal John Oliver Osmond (Service No:513) enlisted in the AIF on 18 March 1916 as a Private attached to Machine Gun Coy 3 Reinforcement 8. Private Osmond embarked from Melbourne bound for Plymouth on 23 November 1916 on board HMAT A20 Honorata. On 20 April 1917 he embarked for France with 4th Machine Gun Coy and was promoted to Lance Corporal on 29 July 1918. WiA on 8 August 1918 - shell wound to right arm - Lance Corporal Osmond was invalided to England, from where he embarked for the RTA on 12 May 1918 on board HT Port Napier. Lance Corporal Osmond was Discharged on 13 August 1919.
Born in 1894 in Surrey England, John was the sixth of eight children of William Edward Osmond (b1857 in London, England) and Hannah Mariah Willis (b1860 in Surrey, England). William (a Bricklayer's Labourer) and Hannah (a Domestic Servant) married in 1881 in London where they settled and raised their family and William worked as a Railway Labourer and Railway Storeman.
John was Butcher in London when he immigrated in 1914, arriving in Brisbane QLD on board the Rimutaka. He settled at Enoggera in Brisbane where he was a Firefighter, and in 1923 married Mary Cecilia Nelson (b1901 in Charleville, QLD). John and Mary settled at Enoggera where John was a Fireman and later a Concrete Worker. John died in 1980 and Mary in 1985.
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