MCENERNY, David
| Service Number: | 6824 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 September 1916, Enlisted at Royal Agricultural Society Showground, Moore Park, Sydney. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, 14 December 1881 |
| Home Town: | Summer Hill, Ashfield, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Carriage Builder |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 18 September 1917, aged 35 years |
| Cemetery: |
Hooge Crater Cemetery, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Sep 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6824, 1st Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Royal Agricultural Society Showground, Moore Park, Sydney. | |
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| 8 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 6824, 1st Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Port Nicholson embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 8 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 6824, 1st Infantry Battalion, SS Port Nicholson, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
David McENERNY (Service Number 6824) was born on 14th December 1881 at Armidale, NSW. He first worked for the NSW Government Railways as a temporary car builder at Eveleigh Workshops from 6th June 1913. Eighteen months later he was made permanent. In September 1916 he was granted leave to join the Expeditionary Forces.
He enlisted at the Royal Agricultural Society Showground camp at Moore Park in Sydney on 4th September 1916,. He gave hiis father living at Bonalbo on the Richmond River as his next of kin. He was allotted to the 22nd Reinforcements to the 1st Battalion. McEnerny embarked on SS ‘Port Nicholson’ at Sydney on 8th November 1916 and reached Devonport (England) on 10th January 1917. He was then allotted to the 1st Training Battalion.
He was charged with ‘Breaking away from escort party at Waterloo Station, London at 2000 16-2-17 and remaining absent till reporting at 2300 18-2-17’ This offence incurred the penalty of seven days’ Field Punishment No. 2 and the forfeiture of ten days’ pay.
In May he proceeded overseas to France and joined the 1st Australian Divisional Base Depot on 9th May 1917. A few days later he was taken on the strength of the 1st Australian Infantry Battalion.
He was killed in action in Belgium on 18th September 1917 and buried near Zillebeke. After the war in the rationalisation of graves, his remains were exhumed and re-interred in Hooge Crater Cemetery, Passchendaele, two miles due East of Ypres.
David McEnerny’s brother Thomas also died on active service, on 30th September 1918.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.