HOGAN, Cornelius Placid
| Service Numbers: | N43227, NX113262 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 January 1939, A Company |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 3 Infantry Battalion AMF |
| Born: | Redfern, New South Wales, Australia, 17 June 1912 |
| Home Town: | Bowral, Wingecarribee, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Postman |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Templeton's Crossing, Kokoda Track, Papua New Guinea, 17 October 1942, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: |
Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea C7, E. 6 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kokoda Track Memorial Rose Garden |
World War 2 Service
| 31 Jan 1939: | Enlisted Private, N43227, 3 Infantry Battalion AMF, A Company | |
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| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Sergeant, NX113262 | |
| 13 Feb 1940: | Promoted Corporal, A Coy, 3 Inf Bn, Goulburn, NSW | |
| 21 Oct 1940: | Promoted Sergeant, A Coy, 3 Inf Bn | |
| 17 May 1942: | Embarked Sergeant, NX113262, 3 Infantry Battalion AMF, D Company | |
| 10 Jul 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, NX113262, 3 Infantry Battalion AMF |
Con Hogan last days Fighting 3rd battalion
06 October 42
Col Cameron ordeded Bede Tongs & 10 platoon with 8 men Japanese have disappeared on the Track he said find then. Left. Menari. Up through Efogi, North Efogi, Kagi, head towards the track between Kagi and Templeton’s We found 8 Australian streacher bearers Ambushed and lay Rotting North Efogi and big climb to Kagi. came across eight or twelve Japanese They all appeared to be dead. no weapons. Their own Japanese soldiers deserted
The 10th platoon I was also to protect the left flank of a fighting patrol from the 2/25th Battalion, strength 53 men and commanded by Lt Barnett with Lt Cox. Their route was from Efogi by branch track to Myola then Templeton’s Crossing to find and fight the Japanese.
They meet up with another patrol of Sgt Con Hogan heading up Seregina Valley to Alola .
They had captured a weak Jap Soldier trying to throw a grenade at then but was unable due to illness & to weak . He was caught cleaned up & taken back to Menari A step climb to Kagi we came across a number of Japanese bodies were on the right hand side of the Track on the climb to Kagi. The bodies were in a deplorable state, fly blown and apparently victims of dysentery by the added stench and visible filth.we conted sixteen. There appeared to have been no water available to them so they must have died a painful, lingering death.
7 october .
Sgt Con Hogan died at Templetons With Sgt Len Griffith taking lead
Submitted 14 July 2020 by Anthony Davis
Biography contributed
Cornelius Placid HOGAN was born in Redfern, Sydney on 17th June 1912
His parents were Cornelius HOGAN & Catherine CARTER who married in Sydney in 1910
He married Isabel Mary Jane HOPPING in Sydney in 1934
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