MORGAN, Frederick John William
| Service Number: | 15587 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 January 1916, 5th Reinforcements |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 4th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia, 8 November 1888 |
| Home Town: | Charters Towers, Charters Towers, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 19 September 1959, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 5 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 15587, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , 5th Reinforcements | |
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| 14 Apr 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 15587, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 14 Apr 1916: | Embarked Gunner, 15587, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Ceramic, Sydney | |
| 4 Sep 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, 12th Battery | |
| 29 Apr 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Gunner, 15587, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, per HT Rio Negro for Sydney, NSW | |
| 17 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 15587, 4th Field Artillery Brigade |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Fred was the second of seven children of Peter Morgan (born 1860 in Cardiganshire, Wales) and Marianne Williams (born 1859 in Blaeneau Ghent, Wales). Peter was a Farm Servant when he immigrated to Cooktown, QLD on board the Almora in 1882. Peter and Marianne married in Rockhampton, QLD in 1884 and had moved to Charters Towers by 1888 when Fred was born. Peter worked as a Miner and Labourer in Charters Towers, where he died in 1921.
Fred was working as a Labourer in Charters Towers, QLD when he enlisted (at Marrickville in NSW) in the AIF in January 1916. He served as a Gunner (Service No:15586) with the 5th and 4th Field Artillery Brigades in France. Fred was Discharged in September 1919 and returned to Charters Towers in QLD.
Following his father's death in 1921, Fred moved with his mother to Booval in Ipswich, QLD where he worked as a Labourer until his death in 1959.
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