Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 18/07/1915
- Date of Discharge
- 24/11/1919
- Place of Enlistment
- Goulburn NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Date of Birth
- 22/04/1892
- Place of Birth
- Tuggeranong (Tuggranong) ACT
- Address (at enlistment)
- Queanbeyan NSW (previously Tuggeranong ACT)
- School(s) Attended
- Tharwa School
- Occupation
- Drover
- Next of Kin
- Thomas P. Maxwell (father), Monaro Street, Queanbeyan NSW
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 1325
- Final Rank
- Trooper
- Final Unit
- 7 Light Horse Regiment AIF
Commemoration
Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW
Notes
Mick Maxwell was the youngest of the three Maxwell brothers to enlist in World War 1 and, like his brothers, he was a stockman and drover and served with the 7th Light Horse Regiment in Egypt and Palestine. He was frequently in trouble being charged more than a dozen times with a variety of offences mostly while under the influence of alcohol. He was wounded in the head in November 1917 during the push towards Jerusalem and did not rejoin his unit until June 1918. Maxwell was part of the 7th Light Horse contingent sent to Gallipoli at the end of the war to search for artefacts and graves. He returned to Australia and was discharged on 24 November 1919. By the 1940s he was living in Canberra. In his later years Maxwell spent time in the Repatriation Hospital at Concord in Sydney and died on 16 December 1970. He is buried in the ex-service's portion of Woden Cemetery.
Description - height 5 feet 9 inches, weight 155 pounds, chest 37 inches, fair complexion, grey eyes, brown hair, Catholic.
Sources
Narelle O'Rourke, 'A Country Nurse and Midwife', 1989
Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
Matthew Higgins, 'A Century of Learning: Tharwa Primary School 1899-1999', Canberra 1999
Queanbeyan Age - 12 March 1912, 27 July 1915, 30 November 1917, 11 December 1917, 8 February 1918, 28 November 1919
Maxwell collection, Canberra & District Historical Society
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)