MORGAN, Arthur Clinton
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | 24 March 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 11th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Warwick, Queensland, Australia, 14 August 1881 |
| Home Town: | Warwick, Southern Downs, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Warwick State School, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Journalist |
| Died: | Natural causes, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2 August 1957, aged 75 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 11th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 2 Jun 1915: | Involvement 11th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Jun 1915: | Embarked 11th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Medic, Brisbane | |
| 29 Aug 1915: | Transferred AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 5th Light Horse Regiment, B Squadron of 11th Light Horse attached to 5th Light Horse as reinforcements to be known as D Squadron. | |
| 29 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 5th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 3 Nov 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 5th Light Horse Regiment | |
| 22 Feb 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 11th Light Horse Regiment | |
| 7 Jul 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Lieutenant, Anzac Provost Corps | |
| 15 Dec 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 11th Light Horse Regiment | |
| 16 Feb 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 11th Light Horse Regiment, HT Shropshire, Suez for return to Australia via Colombo - disembarking Melbourne 21 March 1917 then by train to Sydney. | |
| 15 May 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 11th Light Horse Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Michael Silver
Arthur Clinton Morgan was born at Warwick, the eldest of ten children of Sir Arthur Morgan (Premier of Queensland - 1903-06) and his wife, Lady Alice Augusta Clinton.
He married Eileen Anna Hobbs (1884-1963) in 1908 and worked for his family's newspaper, the Warwick Argus, as a journalist up to 1914 when the family sold the newspaper. Like his father and grandfather, a colonial polititian, he had a strong interest in politics from an early age.
With the outbreak of war, he enlsited in early 1915 and embarked with the 11th Light Horse Regiment on 2 June 1915. He served in the Gallipoli campaign and later in Palestine, reaching the rank of Lieutenant, before being invalided home in early 1917.
His brother, 1854 Sergeant Beresford Sydney Morgan served with the Army Medical Corps in Palestine during the Great War.
After the war, Arthur Morgan returned to journalism, before being elected to the Australian House of representatives as the Federal member for Darling Downs in 1929, but lost the seat at the 1931 election. Despite suggestions that he should re-enter politics, these opportunities never materialised.
Lieutenant Arthur Clinton Morgan died in Sydney in 1957 aged 75.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Morgan_(Australian_politician)
https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/115126/2/b12248459.pdf
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