Mervyn O'CONNOR

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Service Number:	3634
Enlisted:	28 October 1915, Holsworthy, NSW
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	3rd Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Junee, New South Wales, Australia, 1894
Home Town:	Junee, Junee, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Postal Employee
Died:	Newtown, New South Wales, Australia, 1943, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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28 Oct 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3634, 20th Infantry Battalion, Holsworthy, NSW
20 Dec 1915:	Embarked Private, 3634, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Sydney
20 Dec 1915:	Involvement Private, 3634, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
14 Feb 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 2nd Infantry Battalion, From 20th Battalion at Tel-el-Kebir
22 Jul 1916:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3634, 20th Infantry Battalion, Shell shock. Embarked for England on 1 August 1915 aboard HS Asturias
9 May 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 3rd Machine Gun Battalion
3 May 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3634, 3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Discharged at the 2nd Military District as medically unfit

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Son of Henry Michael O'Connor and Margaret O'Connor of Hill Street, Junee, NSW. Henry's parents were both convicts and transported to Tasmania.

Commenced return to Australia on 2 January 1919 aboard HT Karmala disembarking on 15 February 1919 at Melbourne for onward travel to Sydney

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1921c Mervyn married, Letitia McCarthy in Junee, NSW

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