Keogh, James Patrick
SURNAME
Keogh
NAME
James Patrick
PLACE OF BIRTH
Thurles, Tipperary, Ireland
OCCUPATION
Labourer
PLACE OF ENLISTMENT
Mossman, QLD
DATE OF ENLISTMENT
12/01/1915
NEXT OF KIN
Mrs C E Keogh (wife),, Derby, England
LINK TO DOUGLAS SHIRE
Enlisted
REGIMENT 1
1 Battery, 3 Field Artillery Brigade, AIF
RANK
Gunner
CAMPAIGN 1
Gallipoli
CAMPAIGN 2
Western Front
DATE DISCHARGED
10/06/1918
OTHER INFORMATION
Awarded the 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
STORY OUTLINE
A young Irishman joins the AIF in Mossman, QLD. He survives Gallipoli, only to be gassed in France.
After a lengthy period of hospitalisation, he returns to Australia and is discharged in June 1918. He marries an Irish munitions worker in Ireland 12 November 1918 and they settle in Tugun QLD. James Patrick Keogh died 31 August 1940, aged 50.
SERVICE NO
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