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Daniel Frank Kelly

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DANIEL FRANK KELLY   1886 - 1916 'No Known Grave' Photo supplied by Maggie Goss     Daniel Frank Kelly   was born in November 1886 in Sebastian, Victoria, Australia .                 The eldest child and son of Michael Kelly and Margaret Mary Mulvahill, Daniel was a hard working lad and was working as a Butcher at A W Brown Butcher Marong, Victoria, Australia,  in 1913.  He was also involved in the Hibernian Australian Catholic Benefit Society (HACBS) a church based support network that had been established by Irish immigrants. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernian_Australasian_Catholic_Benefit_Society )  By 1914 as the clouds of world war one were rumbling in Europe, Daniel was  living and working in Raywood, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia and  Daniel was still working as a butcher. War broke out on the 28 July 1914,when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was assassinated in Sarajevo.The Austro-Hungarian Empire dec