First World War BILINGUAL Victory Medal (South African Issue)
A/CPL. M. H. O'MEARA. 2ND S.A.I.
11571 Corporal Michael Henry O'Meara, 2nd South African Infantry Regiment
Wounded in Action 16th October 1917 - Passchendaele
Killed in Action 24th March 1918 - German Spring Offensive
His brother was died with the 6th South Africans in WW1 in 1916, buried in Morogoro Cemetery
Michael Henry O’Meara was born in Pietermaritzburg in 1883, his grandfather was Irish and moved to South Africa. He attested for the 1st South African Infantry at Germiston on 10 February 1917. Posted to France with the 2nd Regiment, he was wounded at duty 16 October 1917 and was reported as missing during the German Spring Offensive on 24 March 1918. His service record states: ‘accepted as dead [on] 21.11.18’. He has no known grave and is commemorated upon the Pozieres Memorial.
Son of Thomas P. O'Meara, of 42, Loop St., Pietermaritzburg, Natal, and the late Mary O'Meara.
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