O’Brien, Benedict Michael (1195)
Place of Birth: Ballarat, VIC
Age: 32 years 6 months
Enlistment Details: Saturday, 19 September 1914 – Melbourne, VIC
Service Number: 1195 view online service record
Address:
Star Hotel
Collingwood, VIC
Next of Kin:
Thomas O’Brien (brother)
Star Hotel
Collingwood, VIC
Embarkation Details:
Date: Tuesday, 22 December 1914
Ship: HMAT Themistocles A32
Port: Melbourne, VIC
Unit: 8th Infantry Battalion – 1st Reinforcements
Fate:
DOW: Tuesday, 14 September 1915
Place: Egypt
Next of Kin later at 10 Liardet Street, Port Melbourne
Private, 8 Infantry, Died of wounds/disease 14 September, 1915, Egypt, aged 32, commemorated Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Cairo, Egypt
1195 (Brother : Thomas O’BRIEN (parents deceased), born Ballarat, educated ? He enlisted as a 32-year-old labourer, a brother at the Star Hotel, Collinwood, later at 10 Liardet Street, Port Melbourne O’Brien suffered wounds to the back at Gallipoli on 12 August, 1915 and was invalided to No 1 Australian General Hospital at Heliopolis where he died just over a month later as a combination of the wounds and dysentery. No circular returned)
Additional Research by Brian Membrey