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Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

Madden P J Gunner 1084 Patrick Joseph 2 FAB 29 Fireman .. R C

Address: Essendon, Mackay St, 33

Next of Kin: Madden, J, Mackay St, Essendon

Enlisted: 18 Aug 1914

Embarked: A9 Shropshire 20 Oct 1914

Relatives on Active Service:

Madden H J Pte 2860 brother

Mentioned in Correspondence:

Atkins R Driver 1011 letter in Essendon Gazette 29 July 1915 - wounded

Goode-L-J-Letters-from-Gallipoli letter to sister, 18 Nov 1915

Patrick Madden played VFA and VFL football for Essendon before the War. On return to Gallipoli after his first wound he received another gun shot wound seven days later. He returned once again three weeks after that. He returned to Australia May 1917 suffering from shell shock, concussion and ruptured thigh muscles received at Albert on the Somme on the 27th October 1916. Patrick was finally discharged with a “good conduct” certificate.

Information courtesy of Ian Watkins.

P. J. Madden (of the 5th Battery, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, 1st Australian Division), second son of Mr. and Mrs. John Madden, of Mackay street, Essendon, states he never felt better in his life. He is captain of the Artillery football team, and Bickford, an Essendon (A.) player, is captain of another team. Corporal Madden was at the landing at Gallipoli, and was severely wounded on the 29th of last May, the bullet penetrating through his liver, lower part of his lung, and broke a piece off the breast bone, and was taken out half an inch under the heart. He was sent back to the trenches in August, and remained there until the evacuation of Gallipoli.

WITH THE COLOURS. (1916, March 23). The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 6 Edition: Morning.. Retrieved January 28, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74592325

Gunner Frederick Sydney Loch also embarked on the Shropshire with the 2nd Field Artillery Battalion, and wrote an account of it published as Straits Impregnable by Sydney de Lough during the war, though initially disguising it as a novel. An annotated version of Loch's book has been published by Susanna de Vries, and now called To Hell and Back.