BYRNE, Cecil John

  1. Service Details
  2. Personal Details
  3. Unit and Rank Details
  4. Notes
  5. Sources

Service Details

Branch of Service
Army
Conflict
World War I (1914-1918)
Date of Enlistment
04/08/1915
Date of Discharge
07/04/1919
Place of Enlistment
Gunning NSW

Personal Details

Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Gunning NSW
Address (at enlistment)
Goulburn NSW (previously Royalla ACT)
Occupation
Teacher
Next of Kin
Patrick Byrne (father), Montague Street, Goulburn NSW

Unit and Rank Details

Service Number
8749
Final Rank
Gunner
Final Unit
2 Division Artillery AIF

Notes

Byrne was born in Gunning in 1893 and was the school teacher at Royalla when he enlisted on 4 August 1915. He was farewelled at the school a few days later and presented with a set of military brushes by his students and a wrist watch by the community. Byrne served with his brother Patrick, embarking together in November 1915 with the 2nd Division Ammunition Column and joined the 104th Field Battery in Egypt. From May 1916 he served with the 4th Field Artillery Brigade in France before being hospitalised with trench feet in February 1917. He returned to serve with the 104th Field Battery before receiving a gun shot wound to his right thigh in September 1918. He returned to Australia with his brother in January 1919 and was discharged the following April. Byrne died on 18 January 1962 in Sydney.

Description - height 5 feet 11 inches, weight 130 pounds, chest 33 inches, dark complexion, dark brown eyes, dark brown hair, Catholic.

Sources

Lyall Gillespie, 'Early Education and Schools in the Canberra Region', 1999
Queanbeyan Age - 3 April 1917, 1 January 1919
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)

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