CREEDY, Mickall
| Service Number: | 439 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Queensland, Australia, 1 November 1880 |
| Home Town: | Newmarket, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Police Officer (Sergeant) |
| Died: | Suicide, Newmarket, Brisbane - Queensland, Australia, 11 April 1941, aged 60 years |
| Cemetery: |
Nudgee Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane Plot: A1-02-22 |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 439, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 6 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 439, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 488 notes 5th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 6 Mar 1901 aboard Templemore arriving Port Elizabeth 1 Apr 1901. | |
| 5 May 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 439, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 491 notes 5th QIB embarked at Cape Town 27 Mar 1902 aboard St Andrew returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 30 Apr 1902, disbanded 5 May 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Note- Murray, noted on his entry in the AWM nominal roll that his first name is incorrectly recorded as Mickall and should be Michael. It is somewhat more complicated than that. He went through life known as Edward Michael Creedy, however, BDM Qld online birth and death registers have him recorded as Edwin Michael Creedy and his marriage registered in the name of Edward Michael Creedy.
When Edward Michael Creedy enlisted in 1901 in the 5th QIB and his details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 16 Mar 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as his father Denis Creedy, Ruthven Street, Toowoomba.
Edward (Edwin) Michael Creedy was born on 1 Nov 1880 in Queensland, a son to Denis Joseph Creedy and Anastasia Creedy (nee Rafter). He married Ethel Ann Mauditt Nethercote on 17 Dec 1907 in Queensland and they had 2 children.
Newspaper reports on his death in 1941 noted that he was a recently retired Sergeant, affectionately known as Ned, of the Queensland Police Service having been a serving member of the force for 38 years. It would appear he joined the police not long after his discharge from the 5th QIB in 1902. The last 20 years of his police service was based at Newmarket, Brisbane.
Reports indicate that following his retirement from the force, and having to leave his police residence at Newmarket, he became despondent. The depression leading him to commit suicide found hanging from a large tree, under which he had often sat while grazing his pet cow, in Sedgewood Park, Newmarket.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 502; various newspaper articles- see links).
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