Rev Bro
Clifford
Ambrose
Brennan
Born in Balmain, New South Wales, Australia
Ancestors 
Son of George Brennan
and Mary Margaret (Giuliani) Brennan
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 26
in At Sea
Profile last modified
| Created 13 Jun 2019
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Biography
Rev Bro Clifford Brennan was a Prisoner of War during World War II.
Rev Bro Clifford Brennan died as a prisoner of war on the Montevideo Maru during the Second World War.
Clifford was born in Balmain (Sydney), NSW in 1916, the son of George Brennan, a foreman and his wife Mary Margaret, nee Giuliani.
Clifford was a Reverend Brother with the Catholic Mission of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus at Honapoi in New Guinea when the Japanese invaded in Jan 1942. He was captured at Kokopo, near Rabaul and interned as a civilian prisoner.[1]
Prior to being in New Guinea he had been at the Sacred Heart Monastery in Douglas Park, NSW.
He died on board the "Montevideo Maru" when it was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of the Philippines on 01 Jul 1942, en route from Rabaul to Hainan, where he was destined for forced labour.
Sources
- ↑ LOST AT SEA. (1945, November 26). The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), p. 5. Retrieved June 13, 2019, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44831919
- Birth - NSW BDM Birth index - BRENNAN CLIFFORD A; 3024/1916; GEORGE; MARY; BALMAIN NORTH
- Death Form - National Archives of Australia - Defence - General - Information of deaths for persons lost on the MONTEVIDEO MARU - https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=102239&S=24
- Obituary - SOLEMN REQUIEM FOR HEROIC MISSIONARIES (1945, December 27). Catholic Weekly (Sydney, NSW : 1942 - 1954), p. 6. Retrieved June 13, 2019, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article146486052
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission - https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/3173228/clifford-ambrose-brennan/
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