Andrew Tunnard (Tunny) BYRNE

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BYRNE, Andrew Tunnard

Service Number:	22497
Enlisted:	10 September 1915
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	12th Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	British Columbia, Canada, 10 March 1894
Home Town:	Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Barman
Died:	Katanning, Western Australia, 28 June 1970, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Katanning Cemetery, Western Australia
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World War 1 Service

10 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 22497, 23rd Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade
20 May 1916:	Embarked Gunner, 22497, 23rd Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade, HMAT Medic, Melbourne
20 May 1916:	Involvement Gunner, 22497, 23rd Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: ''
6 Sep 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Gunner, 22497, 12th Field Artillery Brigade , embarked England for Melbourne per HT Berrima
10 Dec 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 22497, 12th Field Artillery Brigade
Date unknown:	Embarked Gunner, 22497, 23rd Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade
Date unknown:	Involvement Gunner, 22497, 23rd Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: '' embarkation_ship: '' embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Gunner Andrew Tunnard Byrne (Service No:22497) enlisted in the AIF on 10 September 1915 and embarked from Melbourne for Plymouth on board HMAT A7 Medic as a Gunner attached to 23rd Howitzer Brigade on 20 May 1916. Gunner Byrne embarked from England for Melbourne on 6 September 1919 on board HT Berrima and was attached to 12th Field Artillery Brigade at Discharge on 10 December 1919. Siblings Brennan (RAF; KiA in Egypt) and Tasman (Royal Field Artillery) served in the UK, and Norman served in WWII with the AIF.

Born in 1894 in Canada, Tunny was fourth of eleven children of Andrew John Joseph Byrne (b1858 in Dublin, Ireland) and Mary (Cecilia) Elizabeth Kitchen (b1868 in Lincolnshire, England). Andrew was a Publisher's Deliverer in England and he and Cecilia met in Sydney NSW around 1889 - they married in London in 1910. Andrew worked as a Manufacturer's Agent and he and Cecilia lived in Sydney NSW, Brisbane QLD, Canada, Melbourne and England. Andrew died in 1911 in Melbourne - Cecilia was in London and remarried in 1929.

Tunny had returned from England by 1915 and was living in Perth, WA with sister Pearlie. He was working in Perth as a Barman when he enlisted in the AIF, and by 1925 was a Farmer in Tambellup, WA when he married Eileen Mary Lenore Rourke (b1900 in Albnay, WA). Andrew and Eileen settled in Tambellup where they raised their family and Andrew was a Farmer. Andrew died in 1970 and Eileen in 1991.

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