Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

19/08/1914

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

23/10/1879

Place of Birth

Yarralumla

Address (at enlistment)

Kensington NSW (previously Yarralumla ACT and Tharwa ACT)

Occupation

Soldier

Next of Kin

Mrs. M. Sheedy (wife), Kensington NSW

Service Number

36

Final Rank

Lieutenant

Final Unit

5 Field Artillery Brigade AIF

Martin Sheedy was born at Yarralumla and also lived in the Tharwa area where his father farmed and was a mail contractor. He was a Boer War veteran and a professional soldier when he enlisted, embarking for overseas as a Battery Sergeant Major with the 1st Field Artillery Bridge in October 1914 and also serving with the 5th Field Artillery Brigade as a Lieutenant. His wife died shortly before he returned from France. Sheedy died on 1 May 1936 at Western Suburbs Hospital in Sydney. He had been living at Homebush.

Note that the National Archives do not have a service file for him.

Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
John Cope, 'Boer War Men of the Queanbeyan - Braidwood Region: Adventurers or Patriots?', Charnwood, ACT, Ginninderra Press, 2005 (pp.178-80).
Queanbeyan Age - 14 January 1919