Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

19/08/1915

Date of Discharge

21/02/1920

Place of Enlistment

Goulburn NSW

Gender

Male

Other Name(s)

Known as 'Jack'

Place of Birth

Tarago NSW

Address (at enlistment)

Girrendra via Queanbeyan. (Possibly meant to be 'Ginninderra ACT').

Occupation

Cook

Next of Kin

Teresa Carney (sister), Gininderra (Ginninderra) ACT

Service Number

4271

Final Rank

Corporal

Final Unit

13 Battalion AIF

Hall Memorial Grove, Victoria Street, Hall ACT
Roll of Honour, Hall Public School
Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW

Carney was living in the Ginninderra district, working for Everard Crace of Gungahleen (along with his brother William and sister Teresa) when he enlisted on 19 August 1915 at Goulburn. He left with the 2nd Battalion but was transferred to the 13th Battalion in Egypt. He was wounded at Bullecourt in France in April 1917 and returned to Australia where he was discharged on 16 July 1918. On 17 June 1919 he re-enlisted with the AIF Special Service AIF and, after returning from London, was discharged on 21 February 1921. He later lived at Sans Souci in Sydney where he died in May 1972.

Description - height 5 feet 9½ inches, 160 pounds, chest 34 inches, fair complexion, blue eyes, light brown hair, Catholic, single, no civil convictions.

National Library of Australia : Country Women's Association of NSW (Canberra Branch) History, 1959 (manuscript call no. NLA MS 734)
Queanbeyan Age - 24 August 1915, 21 June 1918, 28 June 1918
Our Queanbeyan 'Boys' No.4, Howard & Shearsby, Yass (postcard)
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)