| Regimental number | 2810 |
| Place of birth | Bowen, Queensland |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Occupation | Carpenter |
| Address | Prairie, Townsville, Queensland |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 26 |
| Next of kin | Mother, Mrs Johanna O'Connor, Prairie, Townsville, Queensland |
| Previous military service | Nil |
| Enlistment date | |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 25th Battalion, 6th Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/42/2 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A48 Seang Bee on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 9th Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| 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 | 57 |
| Other details |
War service: Egypt, Western Front Allotted to and proceeded to join 9th Bn, Zeitoun, 27 February 1916. Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 27 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 3 April 1916. Admitted to No. 7 General Hospital, St Omer, 25 April 1916 (mumps); discharged to duty, 16 May 1916. Wounded in action, 23 July 1916 (gun shot wound, head); admitted to 16th General Hospital, Treport, 24 July 1916; rejoined unit, 25 August 1916. Admitted to 2nd Australian Field Ambulance, 19 November 1916 (sprained ankle); rejoined unit, 19 November 1916. Admitted to 38th Casualty Clearing Station, 30 November 1916 (pyrexia, unknown origin); transferred to 1st Canadian General Hospital, Etaples, 2 December 1916; to No. 6 Convalescent Depot, 20 December 1916 (influenza); rejoined Bn, 6 March 1917. Admitted to 6th Divisional Rest Station, 22 April 1917; transferred to 12th General Hospital, Rouen, 25 April 1917 (malaria); rejoined Bn, 18 June 1917. Reported missing in action; confirmed killed in action, Belgium, 20 September 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |