John O'NEILL

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Service Number:	109
Enlisted:	19 August 1914, Enlisted at South Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant
Last Unit:	57th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Glasgow, Scotland, 1891
Home Town:	West Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, October 1951, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria Cremation service held 11 October 1951. Interred in the Garden of Remembrance 2, Wall 1, Section 13, Niche 122
Memorials:

19 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 109, 5th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at South Melbourne, Victoria
21 Oct 1914:	Involvement Private, 109, 5th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orvieto embarkation_ship_number: A3 public_note: ''
21 Oct 1914:	Embarked Private, 109, 5th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Orvieto, Melbourne
17 Feb 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 57th Infantry Battalion, From 5th Battalion
23 Feb 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant, 109, 57th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 3rd Military District

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Son of Hugh O'Neill and Matilda Mary O'Neill of Stanley Street, West Melbourne, Victoria

Commenced return to Australia on 23 October 1918 aboard HT Port Lyttleton disembarking on 25 December 1918

Medals: 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal