Arthur Clinton MORGAN

Arthur Clinton MORGAN Update Details

If you confirm that you want to proceed with the update, this record will be locked for editing by all other users until you have finished. You will have 7 days to complete your changes before they will be automatically submitted.

Do you want to proceed?

MORGAN, Arthur Clinton

Service Numbers:	Not yet discovered
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:

24 Mar 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 11th Light Horse Regiment
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

Biography 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

Virtual
War Memorial
Australia