Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 29/10/1915
- Date of Discharge
- 23/08/1918
- Place of Enlistment
- Sydney NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Place of Birth
- Yarralumla
- Address (at enlistment)
- Woollahra NSW (previously Yarralumla ACT and Tharwa ACT)
- Occupation
- Tram conductor
- Next of Kin
- Annie Sheedy (wife), Marrickville NSW
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 18536
- Final Rank
- Sergeant
- Final Unit
- 7 Field Artillery Brigade AIF
Notes
Michael Sheedy was the older brother of Martin Sheedy and was born at Yarralumla in 1876, also growing up in the Tharwa area where his father farmed and was a mail contractor. He was a Boer War veteran and living in Sydney when he enlisted in October 1915 at the Royal Agricultural Showgrounds. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant with the 7th Field Artillery Brigade, attached to the 3rd Division of the AIF, before he arrived in France in December 1916. The following June he was hospitalised with a hernia but despite rejoining his unit in August was back in hospital a few weeks later with an inguinal hernia. He was sent to England for treatment and then returned to Australia in March 1918. Sheedy was discharged in August 1918 in Sydney as medically unfit. He later moved to Mittagong and died on 1 August 1947 at Bowral District Hospital.
Description - height 5 feet 11 inches, weight 149 pounds, chest 35-39 inches, fresh complexion, blue eyes, auburn hair, Catholic.
Sources
John Cope, 'Boer War Men of the Queanbeyan - Braidwood Region: Adventurers or Patriots?', Charnwood, ACT, Ginninderra Press, 2005 (pp.181-182)
Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)