Son of Francis and ElizabethMcDonough nee O'Reilly, Born at Lombard St. Dublin. Regimental number 414 Religion Roman Catholic Occupation Printer Marital status Single Age at embarkation 21 Next of kin Father, 67 Forthdille Gardens, Sheperds Bush, London, England Enlistment date 24 February 1915 Place of enlistment Melbourne, Victoria Rank on enlistment Private Unit name 23rd Battalion, B Company Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A14 Euripides on 10 May 1915 Fate Killed in Action 2 September 1915 Age at death from cemetery records 20 Place of burial East Mudros Military Cemetery (Plot II, Row M, Grave No. 229), Lemnos, Greece Panel number 99, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial Drowned when the SS Southland was torpedoed in the Agean Sea. His body washed up near Mudros, Lemnos, approx. six weeks later and he was interred there. His brother who was also on board and survived.