Peter Shannon died 19 July 1916 Fromelles France WW2

Help identify an Aussie soldier, World War 1. Born in New Ross

3433 Private Peter Paul SHANNON. 53rd Battalion AIF. KIA 19 July 1916

Peter died at the Battle of Fromelles, in Northern France. He is listed as being in the mass grave found in 2008 at Fromelles. He can be identified, only by finding a family member carrying the much needed Y DNA. We have exhausted our avenues of research over the past 2 years.

Peter Shannon came to Australia in the 1890s, with his parents and siblings He was born in 1883 in New Ross in Wexford. He joined the Australian Army in 1915 after working as a shearer at Merriwa in the Hunter Valley.

He was one of about 1300 Australians missing after the battle, his name is recorded with the others at the nearby VC Corner Memorial. In 2008 a mass grave of 250 Australian soldiers was discovered at Fromelles in France. Peter is on the list created by the German Army of 190 men they placed into the grave. All of the soldiers were reburied in a new cemetery in 2010. DNA had been taken and now 150 have been identified mostly through family donating DNA.

In Peters case, none of his siblings had children so we must look for the DNA, commencing in Ireland. We are seeking a living male SHANNON who shares a male Shannon ancestor with Peter. (The Y DNA line)

Are there any Shannons or conencted family out there who come from New Ross? Perhaps you can help solve this.