James Patrick KELLY-HEALY

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Toowoomba Soldiers' Memorial Hall WW1 Roll of Honour

James Patrick KELLY-HEALY

Birthplace
Adavale
Resided
Chinchilla
Occupation
Clerk
Enlisted
31-January-1916
Place
Toowoomba
Age
21
Status
Single
Service No
1860
Rank
Private
Unit
42nd Battalion, 2nd Reinforcements
Embarked
16-August-1916
Place
Brisbane
Active Service
Western Front
Highest rank
2nd Lieutenant
Honours and Awards
No
Fate
How Died
Killed in action
Date
04-October-1917
Place
Zonnebeke, Belgium
Cemetery or Memorial
Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium
Notes

Also named on Toowoomba Mothers’ Memorial.

Brother of 130 Private John Kelly-Healy (not on Roll of Honour).

 

James Kelly-Healy landed in France in November 1916. In March 1917 he was selected to attend officer training at Cambridge. In June he was appointed 2nd Lieutenant and returned to his unit in France in July. Three months later in Belgium he was killed in action by shellfire during an advance at Zonnebeke. He was 22. His brother John was wounded in action in France on the same day.