British War Medal 1914-20: Private Carrington Killalea, 1st Battalion, AIF

British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.

Associated with the service of 3366 Private Carrington Killalea who was born in Tumut, New South Wales on 1 September 1886 to parents Thomas and Emily Isabel Ada Killalea. Working as a labourer, Killalea enlisted in the Army on 25 July 1915 at Cootamundra, New South Wales. He served in C Company, 1 Battalion, and travelled first to Egypt and then on to France. On 23 July 1916 Killalea was hit in the head by a sniper's bullet during the Battle of Pozieres and died some hours later while waiting on a stretcher for evacuation to a casualty clearing station. He was buried in the vicinity of Pozieres but his body was not recovered after the war and his name is commemorated on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial. His brother, Myles, of 34 Battalion, AIF, died of wounds received at the First Battle of Villers Bretonneux in April 1918.