Walter Henry O'SHEA MM

O'SHEA, Walter Henry

Service Number: 895
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 13th Infantry Battalion
Born: Ireland, 6 September 1884
Home Town: West Maitland, Maitland, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Horse driver
Died: Ryde City, New South Wales, Australia, 28 June 1960, aged 75 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Macquarie Park Cemetery & Crematorium, North Ryde, New South Wales
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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

It is not clear exactly where he was born-it could have been in Waterford, Ireland or Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland-a Henry O’Shea is honoured on the Kilkenny, MacDonagh Station-Kilkenny World War I Memorial. At attestation his name was shown as Henry Walter and Walter Henry on the same form, and he stated his birthplace as South Kilkenny near the town of Waterford.

Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board Transport A38 Ulysses on 22 December 1914-he was then aged 30.
Address-Greta via West Maitland, New South Wales
Next of kin-Mrs M O'Shea, 64 Reservoir Road, Edingston, [sic] Birmingham, England-probably Edgbaston-[Erdington or Edgbaston]
Enlistment date-29 September 1914
Rank on enlistment-Private 13th Battalion, H Company

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front.

Returned to Australia 4 July 1919.

Spouse-Irene Susannah  O'Shea [Nee Nelson] 1897–1970 (m. 1928)

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