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Private Thomas Patrick John Brennan "Bren" Chinnery

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Given name
Thomas Patrick John Brennan "Bren"
Family name
Chinnery
Gender
Male
Service number
2386
Conflicts
First World War, 1914–18
Fate
Killed in action (KIA)
Additional information
Last held rank
Private
Unit at embarkation
56 Battalion
Service
Australian Army - First Australian Imperial Force (1st AIF)
Veteran Notes/Bio

1.Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW 1 ROH (1917) as "T.P.J.B." and  Bygone Queanbeyan as "T.P.J.B. KIA Broodsende Ridge ,Belgium 1917 (B)". Bygone Queanbeyan also lists a "Chinnery B. KIA 1917 (B)" however it is considered that is probably a double entry for T.P.J.B."

2. “MAPPING ANZACS”: Service Number:2386 ;POB: Bungendore: POE: Goulburn, NSW; NOK: Father: John Chinnery.         

3. AWM Embarkation Roll: Rank:Private ;Unit: 56 Infantry Battalion - 2 to 9 Reinforcements (April 1916 - January 1917); Age: 21 3/12 ; Occupation: Butcher: DOE:23.06.1916 ; Embarked:30.09.1916.Sydney.HMAT Aeneas .A60.

4. AWM Nominal Roll: Rank: Private ;Unit:56 Battalion;DOE:26.03.1916 ;KIA 18.10.1917 .Commemorated Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium

5.See : OUR SOLDIERS BUNGENDORE & THE GREAT WAR. Glenda Ellis .2007.ISBN:978-1-74027-487-6

6. AWM Photograph P07292.00:Studio portrait of 2386 Private (Pte) Thomas Pat John Brennan (Bren) Chinnery, 56th Battalion, of Bungendore, NSW. A butcher before enlisting at Goulburn with his cousin 2386 Pte Thomas Joseph Murphy in March 1916, Pte Chinnery left Australia for England with the 5th Reinforcements in September 1916, and arrived in France for service on the Western Front in December 1916. Pte Chinnery was killed by a German shell whilst in the support lines before Broodseinde Ridge on 18 October 1917, aged 22. He was buried nearby, but the small wooden cross marking his grave was lost in later shelling, and consequently has no known grave.      

7.See  AWM Photograph P09678.001:Group portrait of Bungendore servicemen in the 55th and 56th Battalions noted below at Cyril Smith 2485 and comments by PJH 03.04.15.

8. Commemorated on the ROH in St Thomas' Anglian Church Carwoola, NSW, on a stained glass window in St Philip's Church, Bungendore and on the Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Panel 162.

9. Stephenson: S/O John and Margaret Lee.

10.Application to use Rising Sun Badge: On 03 November 2015 the Bungendore War Memorial Committee applied to Army Branding to use the Rising Sun badge on a proposed street sign for "Chinnery" in the town of Bungendore as part of the Centenary of ANZAC Commemorations. This request was approved on 21 December 2015.

11.QPRC Notice in Bungendore Weekly 17 June 2016 advised intention to use "Chinnery Close as the "proposed name fore the new road created as part of subdivision on Lot 19 Sec 12 DP 976608 ,89 Trucking Yard Lane Bungendore (DA 2015.039 &MOD 2015.0860.

12.Last updated January 2017. 

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