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C Sweeney

Commemorated at
Memorial Name
Bungendore and District War Memorial
Given name
C (Clement)
Family name
Sweeney
Service number
470
Additional information
Gender
M
Rank (legacy)
Lance Corporal
Unit at embarkation
6 Light Horse
Service (legacy)
Army
Conflicts
World War 1
Campaign (legacy)
Gallipoli Sinai-Palestine
Veteran Notes/Bio

1.Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW 1 ROH (1917) and Bygone Queanbeyan
2. “MAPPING ANZACS”: Service Number: 470 ;POB: Bungendore :POE:Sydney; NOK: Father: Patrick Sweeney.
3. AWM Embarkation Roll: Rank:Private ;Unit: 6 LHR [Light Horse Regiment] (December 1914) ; Age:27 ; Occupation:Labourer ;DOE:21.09.1914 ; Embarked:21.12.1914. Sydney. HMAT Suvic.A29.
4. AWM Nominal Roll: Rank:Private ;Unit: 2 LH ;DOE:21.09.1914 : RTA:12.11.1917 .
5. Stephenson:Born 1887.
6.Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer (NSW : 1915 - 1927), Friday 13 August 1915(News and Notes) reported,"...In yesterday's casuality list we notice the names of 'Private.
Clark, 1st L. H., Duntroon ; Private Eallick and C. E. Lee, 1st L H., Queanbeyan ; Lance Corporal C. Sweeney, 6th L. H., Bungendore, among the names of the soldiers who are ill and have desembarked at Malta. ..." 7. NAA file refers to Sweeney as "Lance Corporal" serving 6LH . Discharged Medically Unfit 29.01.1918 as a result of having been wounded 8.8.1916 whence he was transferred to England for hospitalisation and subsequently RTA.

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