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Name Martin O’Meara No. 3970
VC Issue No. 744 Awards VC
Regiment Regiment 16th (South&West) Battalion, AIF
Later
Now 16th Battalion, Royal Western Australian Regiment
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Private
Place Of Birth Lorrha, Rathcabbin, near Birr, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
Place Of Death Claremont Mental Hospital, Perth, Western Australia
Buried/Location Ashes Karrakatta Cemetery, Hollywood, Perth, Australia
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. RC Section - HA, Plot 93
Gazetted 5 September 1916
VC Presented 21 July 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Headstone, Karrakatta Cemetery, Hollywood, Perth, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Named On Family Grave, Lorrha Abbey, Rathcabbin, Near Birr, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
Named On Water Tower, Poziers, Somme, France
P State War Memorial, Kings Park, Perth, WA, Australia
P Named on Water Tower, Pozieres, Somme, France
By The Way…
Sadly he spent the last 15 years of his life in mental asylums
VC Held By
Army Museum of Western Australia, Burt Street, Fremantle, Australia
BORN 6 November 1885
DIED 20 December 1935 AGE 50
VC Won 9-12 August 1916 AGE 30
Place VC Won Pozieres, Somme, France
War/Campaign First World War 1916
Thank you to Anthony Staunton
Thank you to Tony Goddard for the photos of the Water Tower at Pozieres
