SHANNON, Thomas
| Service Number: | 70 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1 Mounted Infantry Contingent |
| Born: | Woodford, Victoria, Australia, 1875 |
| Home Town: | Woodford, Warrnambool, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farm hand |
| Died: | Malvern, Victoria, Australia, 1959, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 70, 1 Mounted Infantry Contingent | |
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| 7 Nov 1899: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 1 Mounted Infantry Contingent, The Contingent left Albany on the 7th November 1899 in the transport, Medic, together with Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian units and arrived in Cape Town on 27th November 1899. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Helen Shanahan
Born Thomas Joseph Shanahan
Thomas was the tenth of twelve children born to Ann Quinn and William Shanahan in Woodford Victoria in 1875.
It is not known why he changed his name to Shannon.
His Unit, 1st WA Mounted Infantry, departed Australia on the 7th November 1899 and returned on 29th December 1900.
He returned to Victoria and married Margaret Ann Scott Ferris in Warrnambool in 1906.
He later moved to Melbourne and lived with Margaret in Caulfield.
They did not have any children.
He died in 1959 aged 84.
He was the beloved Uncle of Robert Francis Shanahan of who was born in Winslow in 1913 and died in Bundoora, Melbourne in 1993.