John Breathwaite McHenry

Service number: 2593

Rank: Trooper

Unit: 4th Light Horse

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Source: National Archives of Australia

John McHenry was born at Belfast in 1873. He was a commercial traveller, living at 62 Raglan Street, Manly with wife Ada. He served in the Boer War with the Irish Horse. He enlisted on 25 April 1916, aged 43, making him one of the oldest men from Manly to successfully enlist.

He served in Egypt as a Trooper with the 4th Light Horse. Diagnosed with rheumatism, he was returned to Australia for discharge on the Wiltshire on 30 December 1917.