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Born: 1 January 1888
Died: 6 April 1918
Awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal and Mentioned in Despatches for service at Gallipoli with the 20th Battalion, AIF. He was evacuated to Australia in early 1916 as a result of enteric fever.
He rejoined the 20th Battalion in France in December 1916 and was killed in action during the German spring offensive near Hangard on 6 April 1918. His body was never recovered. [JSB]
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- Brennan Hugh : SERN 503A : POB Victoria British Columbia : POE Liverpool NSW : NOK S Brennan Mary (webpage)
- Brennan, Hugh; age 26 (webpage)
- Find War Dead: BRENNAN, HUGH (webpage)
- Roll of Honour: Hugh Brennan (webpage)
- First World War Embarkation Rolls: Hugh Brennan [1915] (webpage)
- First World War Embarkation Rolls: Hugh Brennan [1916] (website)
- Red Cross Wounded and Missing: Hugh Brennan (webpage)
- Honours and Awards: Hugh Brennan [Recommendation DCM] (webpage)
- Honours and Awards: Hugh Brennan [Recommendation for Croix de Guerre] (website)
- Honours and Awards: Hugh Brennan [DCM] (webpage)
- Honours and Awards: Hugh Brennan [MID] (webpage)
- BACK FROM THE WAR SOLDIERS AND NURSES ANOTHER TRANSPORT LIST (newspaper article)
- DISTINGUISHED MEN. HOW MEDALS WERE WON. STORIES OF HEROISM. ANZACS TO THE FORE. (newspaper article)
- SERGEANT HUGH BRENNAN, D.C.M. (newspaper article)
- How Honors are Won SERGEANT BRENNAN'S MODEST STORY. PLUGGED AT FROM BOTH SIDES. (newspaper article)
- V.C. AND D.C.M. And Out After More SERGT. HUGH BRENNAN'S EXPLOITS (newspaper article)
- V.C. AND D.C.M. LIVERPOOL SOLDIER'S HEROISM Fought Turks Singlehand BOMB THROWER'S DEADLY WORK (newspaper article)
- STRANGE MEETING. (newspaper article)
- 402nd CASUALTY LIST. NEW SOUTH WALES. MISSING. (newspaper article)
- Hugh Brennan (photograph)