From Ireland to Australia to Gallipoli: John Hannigan
Three medals;
Photograph;
Camp Chronicles;
Copy of a letter
My granduncle John Hannigan was from Waterford,Ireland. He moved to Australia, where he joined the Army during the WWI, he was part of the C Company 16th Battalion of Western Australia. He fought in Gallipoli, where he died on 12th December 1916. According to medical records he was shot in the chest, but a letter for his sitter, Minnie, he claimed to have been hit by a shell burst. He was buried and his fellow soldiers laid a wreath on his grave bearing the inscription In memory of the bravest and best of the battalion.
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Ivan Fitzgerald
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Europeana 1914-1918
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