Francis Robert O'BRIAN

Regimental number11/1049
AddressCamden Street, Feilding
Marital statusMarried
Next of kinWife, Mrs Margaret O'Brian, c/o Miss O'Malley, Government Printing Office, Wellington
Rank on embarkationTrooper
Enlistment statusVolunteer
Unit nameNew Zealand Expeditionary Force, 3rd Reinforcements, Wellington Mounted Rifles
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington on board Aparima on 14 February 1915
Final rankSergeant
Final unitNew Zealand Machine Gun Corps
FateDied of wounds 20 August 1917
Age at death from cemetery records38
Place of burialBeersheba War Cemetery (Row Q, Grave No 54), Israel and Palestine
Other details

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Miscellaneous detailsNominal Roll Vol. 1: Wellington Mounted Rifles/Third