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KELLY, Joseph
(Service number 2801)

Aliases	Joe
First Rank		Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	28/10/1886	Place of Birth	Timaru, New Zealand

Enlistment Information

Date	30 October 1916	Age	30 yrs
Address at Enlistment	Pastoral Chambers, Goulburn Street, Sydney, NSW; previously resident at Duntroon, ACT
Occupation	Carpenter. Apprentice for 5 years in Palmerston North, NZ
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Andrew KELLY (brother), Aramoho, Wanganui, New Zealand, & Mrs A. McWILLIAM (sister), 4 Ridgeway St, Wanganui, New Zealand
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information	Height 5 ft 6 in. Weight 133 lbs. Chest 31-33 in. Complexion fresh. Eyes blue. Hair brown.

Military Service

Served with	Australian Imperial Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	6th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	34th Battalion, 9th Infantry Brigade
Date	25 November 1916
Transport
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With	Machine Gun Details
Last Unit Served With	Machine Gun Battalion Details

Military Awards

Campaigns	Gallipoli
Service Medals	1914-15 Star; British War medal; Victory Medal.
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
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Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	8 February 1921	Reason	Permanently unfit for General Service for less than three months but fit for Home Service.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

1918 in hospital - wounded in the head. On 1 October 1917 his unit had moved to the frontline near Zonnebeke, & he was shot in the head in an attack on Broodseinde Ridge; wound behind left ear & headache on exertion. Headaches continued into 1918. October 1917 first admitted to Field Hospital. Sent to 55th General Hospital near Boulogne, France, then evacuated to England. On 11 December 1917 he was admitted to the Northampton War Hospital, Duston, Northampton, England, suffering from a severe gunshot wound to the head but improving. At hospiital in March 1918 he was diagnosed with disease of framework of the nose. In April 1918 he was hospitalised in England for 2 months with swelling and tenderness from a long-standing injury to the left knee.

Post-war Occupations

Carpenter

Death

Date		Age
Place of Death
Cause
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Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	ACT Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of Dennis & Catherine (Kate) KELLY. Both parents died when he was very young. Brother William served in the NZ Forces & was killed in action in 1917 & brother Andrew also served in the NZ Forces. Enlisted at Victory Barracks in Sydney, NSW, in 1916. Prior to that he was a carpenter working at Duntroon Military College, ACT. Farewelled at the Triumph Hall in Queanbeyan on 6 November 1916. . From July 1917 he was serving with the 34th Battalion on the Western Front in the vicinity of Messines in Belgium; on 1 October they moved to the frontline near Zonnebeke where he was shot in the head. After recovering in England, he met & married Hannah Hilda BLATT at Bethnal Green on 10 December 1918. They returned to Sydney in August 1919. Died by 1968. See also BIO of Andrew.

Sources

www.memorial.act.gov.au (Google search) [19 February 2014]; Australian Military Forces Attestation Paper (National Archives of Australia) [21 February 2014]

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