Dennis Joseph O'DEA

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O'DEA, Dennis Joseph

Service Number:	423
Enlisted:	23 May 1916, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	25th Machine Gun Company
Born:	Kapunda, South Australia, 28 July 1897
Home Town:	Yorketown, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia
Schooling:	Christian Brothers College, Adelaide, South Australia
Occupation:	Student
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 24 October 1917, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Yorketown Bublacowie Pictorial Honour Roll, Yorketown War Memorial, Yorketown and District of Melville Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

23 May 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 423, 8th Machine Gun Company, Adelaide, SA
20 Oct 1916:	Involvement Private, 423, 8th Machine Gun Company, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: ''
20 Oct 1916:	Embarked Private, 423, 8th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Port Lincoln, Melbourne
24 Oct 1917:	Involvement Corporal, 423, 25th Machine Gun Company, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 423 awm_unit: 25th Australian Machine Gun Company awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-10-24

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Patrick and Jane O'DEA (nee MANNING), Yorketown, South Australia

LATE LANCE-CORPORAL D.J.O'DEA
Educated at the Christian Brothers' College Wakefield street. He enlisted on May 23, 1916, sailed for England on October 20, 1916, and landed there on December 23. 1916. He went to France on September 6, 1917. He was of a very bright and cheerful disposition and was loved by all who knew him.

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