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English: Image Brigadier Michael Joseph Aloysius Sheehan CBE, (1899–1975), was born in Skibbereen, Co. Cork Ireland as third of three sons of Captain D. D. Sheehan MP for Mid-Cork, Ireland, who served with him on the Western Front during World War I.
In the course of his WWI and WWII military career Michael Sheehan was awarded ten Campaign Medals At the outbreak of World War I he left St. Finbarr's College, Farranferris, Cork to join the 7th Battalion, Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)|Leinster Regiment on 20 April 1915. He was transferred on 25 September 1915 to the Royal Munster Fusiliers as a second lieutenant and aged 16, was the youngest commissioned officer on the Western Front. He was promoted lieutenant on 1 July 1917, and was wounded twice. His two elder brothers Daniel and Martin Sheehan, were killed in the war. After the war he embarked 18 September 1919 for the British Indian Army and was promoted captain on 20 October 1920. [1] He married Lilian Taylor in 1925 and was father of three children, Barbara (aka Ms. Guido Bischofberger), Christopher and Patricia (aka Ms. Frank Johnson). In World War II he was promoted Brigadier and served on the Headquarters of the famous 14th Army (UK) under General Sir William Slim. In the third Burma Campaign 1944-45 was Director of Supplies and Transport during the division's successful central front trust.
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