Participant Info

Surname

Meehan

First Name

John

Initial

M

Service Number

724

Rank

private

Unit Served

20th Battalion, 5th Machine Gun Company

Service Record

France

Enlistment Date

1917

Enlistment Month

January 3

Embarkation Year

1917

Embarkation Month

June 21

Date of Death

Month of Death

Death Category

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 110, image page 109

Also Known As

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

Michael and Maria Meehan

Parental Address

20 Wattle Street, Haberfield

Parental City

Sydney

Parental State

NSW

Notes

born at Petersham, New South Wales, June 2, 1895, educated Balmain Christian Brothers' School, enlisted February 1917, embarked June 1917. War service: France.On August 8, 1918, at 4:30 am, he was in the first wave over the top, in company with all the br