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Pte. John Joseph Sweeney
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 1st Btn. Otago Regiment
from:Australia
(d.2nd Oct 1916)
John Joseph Sweeney was executed for desertion 02/10/1916 age 37 and buried in Dartmoor Cemetery, Somme, France.
He was an Australian of Tasmanian origin. His brother died on the Western Front in 1918 and his father committed suicide in 1925, just before details of execution were made public