KEARNEY, Donald Leo
| Service Number: | 2765 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 July 1916, Cairns Queensland. |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Eulo, Queensland, Australia, 5 December 1896 |
| Home Town: | Mareeba, Tablelands, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Mareeba State School, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Bank Clerk |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 3 August 1981, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane Section 6 ANZAC, Site 631 |
| Memorials: | Bank of New South Wales Roll of Honour Book, Mareeba War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Jul 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2765, 41st Infantry Battalion, Cairns Queensland. | |
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| 21 Aug 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, Reverts to Private 6.3.1917 | |
| 23 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 2765, 41st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Sydney | |
| 23 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 2765, 41st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: '' | |
| 14 Jul 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 41st Infantry Battalion | |
| 20 Sep 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 3rd Machine Gun Battalion | |
| 4 Jul 1919: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Temporary V.O. Sergeant. |
Donal Leo Kearney.
DONAL LEO KEARNEY was born at Eulo, Queensland, on 4th December, 1896, the son of Mr. James Anderson Kearney and Mrs. Winifred Mary Kearney. He was educated at Mareeba, and joined the Bank’s staff at Atherton on 5th June, 1915, removing to Townsville in the following month.
Donal Kearney had been a lieutenant in the Mareeba Cadet Force at seventeen. At the age of twenty he enlisted in the A.I.F. (July, 1916) and left Australia as provisional sergeant with the 6th Reinforcements for the 41 st Battalion in December, 1916. He reverted to the ranks on arrival in England and joined his battalion in France in June, 1917, where he won promotion to corporal in the following August.
He was in action up to the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux on 22nd May, 1918, when he was wounded. After recovering in England, Donal Kearney joined the 11th Machine Gun Company just before the Armistice. He returned to Australia as sergeant in the Australian Army Pay Corps in September, 1919.
Submitted 17 June 2021 by Lynette Turner
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
DONALD LEO KEARNEY was born at Eulo, Queensland, on 4th December, 1896, the son of Mr. James Anderson Kearney and Mrs. Winifred Mary Kearney. He was educated at Mareeba, and joined the Bank’s staff at Atherton on 5th June, 1915, removing to Townsville in the following month.
Donal Kearney had been a lieutenant in the Mareeba Cadet Force at seventeen. At the age of twenty he enlisted in the A.I.F. (July, 1916) and left Australia as provisional sergeant with the 6th Reinforcements for the 41 st Battalion in December, 1916. He reverted to the ranks on arrival in England and joined his battalion in France in June, 1917, where he won promotion to corporal in the following August.
He was in action up to the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux on 22nd May, 1918, when he was wounded. After recovering in England, Donal Kearney joined the 11th Machine Gun Company just before the Armistice. He returned to Australia as sergeant in the Australian Army Pay Corps in September, 1919.
Source - Bank of NSW Roll of Honour
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