Service Details
Name:
 COLAHAN
Given Name:
 JOHN MAURICE ORR
Initials:
 J M O
Service No:
 4516
Rank:
 Gunner
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Regiment:
 Australian Field Artillery
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Unit:
 5th Bde.
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Date of Death:
 1917-10-14
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Date of Birth:
 1894-02-17
Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at West Hoek Ridge, Passchendaele
Additional
Information:
Son of Surgeon-Gen. Colahan and Elizabeth Newton Orr Colahan; husband of Mrs. M. E. de B. Whitehouse (formerly Colahan), of Telok, Anson, Perak, Federated Malay States. Native of South Africa. ***Buried on the bank of the Hanabeek Stream, east of the West Hoek Ridge
Commemoration
Country:
 Belgium
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Locality:
 Ieper, West-Vlaanderen
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Cemetery:
 YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 7.

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