Regimental number | 32129 |
Place of birth | Kildare, Ireland |
Age on arrival in Australia | 26 |
Religion | Roman Catholic |
Occupation | Salesman |
Address | 21 Stewart Street, Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales |
Marital status | Married |
Age at embarkation | 43 |
Height | 5' 7.5" |
Weight | 158 lbs |
Next of kin | Wife, Mrs M M Byrne, 'Eblana', 22C Womerah Avenue, Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales |
Previous military service | Served for 7 years, Royal Garrison Artillery (completed service); served in the Royal Artillery, British Army, in Aden and in Rangoon (Burma). |
Enlistment date | |
Place of enlistment | Sydney, New South Wales |
Rank on enlistment | Gunner |
Unit name | Divisional Ammunition Column 5, Reinforcement 10 |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 25/112/3 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board RMS Osterley on |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | France |
Age at death | 44 |
Age at death from cemetery records | 44 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 17), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 17 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Patrick and Mary BYRNE; husband of Margaret BYRNE, 211 Barcom Avenue, Darlinghurst, New South Wales. Native of Dublin, Ireland |
Other details |
War service: Western Front Embarked Sydney, 10 February 1917; disembarked Plymouth, England, and marched in to Larkhill, 11 April 1917; reverted to rank of Gunner, 12 April 1917; marched in to RBAA Details, Boyton, 9 July 1917. Proceeded overseas to France, 15 August 1917; marched in to Australian General Base Depot, Rouelles, France, 16 August 1917; marched out to unit, 21 August 1917; taken on strength of 5th Divisional Ammunition Column, 24 August 1917; transferred to 13th Field Artillery Brigade, 17 September 1917; taken on strength of 13th Field Artillery Brigade and posted to 51st Battery, 19 September 1917. Killed in action, France, 13 October 1917. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |
Sources | NAA: B2455, BYRNE Patrick Joseph |