Frederick Conroy
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+ | '''CONROY, Frederick''' | ||
+ | '''Service no:''' 2350 [http://soda.naa.gov.au/record/3280187/1] | ||
+ | '''Place of birth:''' Murwillumbah | ||
+ | '''Address:''' Post Office, Orange | ||
+ | '''Occupation:''' Labourer | ||
+ | '''Next of kin:''' Joseph Conroy (brother), Murwillumbah, later Marion Clarke, Central Hotel, Summer Street, Orange | ||
+ | '''Date of enlistment:''' 22 July 1915 | ||
+ | '''Place of enlistment:''' Liverpool | ||
+ | '''Age at enlistment:''' 22 | ||
+ | '''Fate:''' Embarked HMAT A32 ''Themistocles'', Sydney, 5 October 1915. | ||
+ | Taken on strength 17th Battalion 5 February 1916. | ||
+ | Hospitalised, France, January 1917. | ||
+ | Wounded in action, Somme, 3 February 1917. | ||
+ | Died of wounds, 1/1st South Midland Casualty Clearing Station, France, 3 February 1917. | ||
+ | '''Date of death:''' 3 February 1917 | ||
+ | '''Buried:''' Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, France, Plot 4, Row H, Grave 29 | ||
+ | Frederick Conroy was born in Murwillumbah in about 1892. In July 1915 he was working in Orange as a labourer, when he travelled to Liverpool to enlist in WWI. He formed part of the 17th Australian Infantry AIF and embarked at Sydney on 5 October 1915 via HMAT A32 ''Themistocles''. | ||
+ | Frederick’s unit went onto France where he had two stays in hospital for scabies and diarrhoea. He rejoined his unit on 4 January 1917. Just one month later, on 3 February, he received multiple bomb wounds at the Somme. He died of his wounds at the 1/1st South Midland Casualty Clearing Station later that day. | ||
+ | Private Frederick Conroy is buried at Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, France, Plot 4, Row H, Grave 29 and is remembered on panel number 82 on the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. | ||
+ | * Sharon Jameson and Margaret Nugent, January 2019 | ||
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Revision as of 01:32, 23 January 2019
CONROY, Frederick
Service no: 2350 [1]
Place of birth: Murwillumbah
Address: Post Office, Orange
Occupation: Labourer
Next of kin: Joseph Conroy (brother), Murwillumbah, later Marion Clarke, Central Hotel, Summer Street, Orange
Date of enlistment: 22 July 1915
Place of enlistment: Liverpool
Age at enlistment: 22
Fate: Embarked HMAT A32 Themistocles, Sydney, 5 October 1915. Taken on strength 17th Battalion 5 February 1916. Hospitalised, France, January 1917. Wounded in action, Somme, 3 February 1917. Died of wounds, 1/1st South Midland Casualty Clearing Station, France, 3 February 1917.
Date of death: 3 February 1917
Buried: Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, France, Plot 4, Row H, Grave 29
Frederick Conroy was born in Murwillumbah in about 1892. In July 1915 he was working in Orange as a labourer, when he travelled to Liverpool to enlist in WWI. He formed part of the 17th Australian Infantry AIF and embarked at Sydney on 5 October 1915 via HMAT A32 Themistocles.
Frederick’s unit went onto France where he had two stays in hospital for scabies and diarrhoea. He rejoined his unit on 4 January 1917. Just one month later, on 3 February, he received multiple bomb wounds at the Somme. He died of his wounds at the 1/1st South Midland Casualty Clearing Station later that day.
Private Frederick Conroy is buried at Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, France, Plot 4, Row H, Grave 29 and is remembered on panel number 82 on the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
- Sharon Jameson and Margaret Nugent, January 2019