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    John Benedict Donoghue was born in Grafton, Australia in 1898. He enlisted in the Australian army in 1915 as a labourer and was sent to France in 1916 to fight in World War I. During the Battle of the Somme on November 4-5, 1916, Donoghue was killed along with five officers and 132 other men from his battalion when their attack was not properly supported by artillery due to errors in timing and maps. Donoghue has no known grave but is remembered on memorials in France and Australia.

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    John Benedict Donoghue was born in Grafton, Australia in 1898. He enlisted in the Australian army in 1915 as a labourer and was sent to France in 1916 to fight in World War I. During the Battle of the Somme on November 4-5, 1916, Donoghue was killed along with five officers and 132 other men from his battalion when their attack was not properly supported by artillery due to errors in timing and maps. Donoghue has no known grave but is remembered on memorials in France and Australia.

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    John Benedict Donoghue was born in Grafton, Australia in 1898. He enlisted in the Australian army in 1915 as a labourer and was sent to France in 1916 to fight in World War I. During the Battle of the Somme on November 4-5, 1916, Donoghue was killed along with five officers and 132 other men from his battalion when their attack was not properly supported by artillery due to errors in timing and maps. Donoghue has no known grave but is remembered on memorials in France and Australia.

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    John Benedict Donoghue was born in Grafton, Australia in 1898. He enlisted in the Australian army in 1915 as a labourer and was sent to France in 1916 to fight in World War I. During the Battle of the Somme on November 4-5, 1916, Donoghue was killed along with five officers and 132 other men from his battalion when their attack was not properly supported by artillery due to errors in timing and maps. Donoghue has no known grave but is remembered on memorials in France and Australia.

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    JOHN BENEDICT ("JACK") DONOGHUE (1898-1916)

    John Benedict Donoghue, the first born grandchild of Margaret Mary Landers was born in Grafton in
    April 1898. When he enlisted at Lismore on 9 September 1915 he gave his occupation as Labourer.
    He embarked at Brisbane on 31 January 1916 on H.M.AT. "Wandilla", trained in Salisbury, England
    and proceeded to France on 25 July 1916.
    The last attack of the Battle of the Somrne took place on 5th November 1916 near Longueval. On the
    night of 4/5th November a company from the 26th battalion of which Jack Donoghue belonged was
    given the centre position in an attack which was scheduled to start at 9.10 a.m. A fatal error occurred .

    ,
    however, when some of the men were instead instructed to leave their trenches at 9.13 a.m., as the
    result of which they were not able to benefit from the protection of the artillery, which moved too far
    ahead of them. In addition, German trenches opposite the centre position had been erroneously
    marked
    on some maps as being in British possession, so that these trenches having largely escaped the
    preliminary artillery fire were free to defend the attack with impunity. The result of the battle which
    was called off at 9.00 p.m. was significant losses and only a tiny foothold in enemy territory (soon to
    be
    lost).
    It was in this action that Jack Donoghue (along with five officers and 132 other men from his
    battalion)
    lost his life. He has no known grave but is remembered both at the Villers-Bretonneux War Memorial
    in France (opened in 1938) and in the Hall of Remembrance at the Australian War Memorial,
    Canberra.
    Marianne Simpson Source: Australian War Memorial, National Archives of Australia

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