O'SHEA, Walter Henry
Service Number: | 895 |
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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 |
Memorials: |
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)