Maurice Alexander MCHENRY

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MCHENRY, Maurice Alexander

Service Number:	20453
Enlisted:	22 October 1917
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	3rd Divisional Signal Company
Born:	West Footscray, Victoria, Australia, 6 December 1892
Home Town:	Footscray, Maribyrnong, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Ironmoulder
Died:	Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia, cause of death not yet discovered, date not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW 50. CATHOLIC 2-59. 125.
Memorials:

World War 1 Service

22 Oct 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 20453, 3rd Divisional Signal Company
21 Nov 1917:	Involvement Sapper, 20453, 3rd Divisional Signal Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: ''
21 Nov 1917:	Embarked Sapper, 20453, 3rd Divisional Signal Company, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne
26 Nov 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 20453, 3rd Divisional Signal Company, 3rd MD

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.

79 years ago today, on the Sunday of the 4th July 1943, Sapper Maurice Alexander McHenry, Australian Corps Signal Company (Reg No-20453), iron moulder from "Windownee", 11 Edward Street, West Footscray, Victoria and 11 Elizabeth Street, Mayfield, New South Wales and 1 Barclay Street, Mayfield, N.S.W., father of seven, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 50. CATHOLIC 2-59. 125.

Born at West Footscray, Victoria on the 6th December 1892 to John and Mary McHenry nee Blayney; husband of Rose T McHenry nee Campbell (married 1921, Newcastle, N.S.W., died?), Maurice enlisted May 1917 with the 3rd Divisional Signal Company at Melbourne, Victoria.

Admitted to hospital 31.1.1918 (influenza).
Maurice returned home October 1919, being discharged on the 26th November 1919.
Nothing located on Trove regarding enlistment, returning home, etc.

Mr. McHenry’s grave plaque gives us no indication of his service with the 1st A.I.F., so I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label in remembrance of his sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Lest We Forget.

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