John Alfred O'BRIEN

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Service Number:	605
Enlisted:	20 July 1916, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
Last Rank:	Company Quartermaster Sergeant
Last Unit:	1st Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Redfern, New South Wales, Australia, 1888
Home Town:	Newtown (NSW), Inner West, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bookkeeper
Memorials:

20 Jul 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 605, 1st Machine Gun Company, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
17 Jan 1917:	Involvement Private, 605, 1st Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Omrah embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
17 Jan 1917:	Embarked Private, 605, 1st Machine Gun Company, RMS Omrah, Melbourne
27 Aug 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 1st Machine Gun Battalion
4 Sep 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Company Quartermaster Sergeant, 605, 1st Machine Gun Battalion , Discharged at the 2nd Military District

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Son of James O'Brien and Mary C. O'Brien of Wilson Street, Newtown, NSW.

Commenced return to Australia on 12 June 1919 aboard HT Port Darwin disembarking on 27 July 1919 at Melbourne for onward travel to Sydney

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal