ALLAN, Fergus Osborne
| Service Numbers: | 126, Q69330, QP8621 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 July 1915, A Coy |
| Last Rank: | Staff Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 7 Training Battalion |
| Born: | Lanarkshire, Scotland, 23 January 1890 |
| Home Town: | Ipswich, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Coal Miner |
| Died: | Mining Accident, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, 1 February 1945, aged 55 years |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland |
| Memorials: | Bundamba War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 126, 31st Infantry Battalion, A Coy | |
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| 17 Oct 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 31st Infantry Battalion | |
| 9 Nov 1915: | Embarked Lance Corporal, 126, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne | |
| 9 Nov 1915: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 126, 31st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: '' | |
| 26 Jul 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 31st Infantry Battalion | |
| 9 Apr 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sergeant, 69th Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
| 3 Feb 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Sergeant, 126, 69th Infantry Battalion (WW1), GSW fractured right leg | |
| 12 Oct 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sergeant, 31st Infantry Battalion | |
| 8 May 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sergeant, 126, 31st Infantry Battalion, per A Devanha | |
| 26 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 126, 31st Infantry Battalion |
World War 2 Service
| 2 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, Q69330, 7 Training Battalion | |
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| 31 Oct 1940: | Involvement Staff Sergeant , Q69330 | |
| 31 Oct 1940: | Involvement Staff Sergeant , QP8621, CARO medals slip - also Q69330 | |
| 31 Oct 1940: | Enlisted | |
| 31 Oct 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, Q69330 | |
| 1 Apr 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, Q69330, 7 Training Battalion | |
| 1 Apr 1943: | Discharged | |
| 1 Apr 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, Q69330 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Fergus, born in 1890 in Scotland, was the fifth of eight children born to James Allan (born 1857 in Ayrshire, Scotland) and Margaret Stevenson Osborne (born 1855 in Ayrshire, Scotland). John and Margaret lived in Lanarkshire and Midlothian in Scotland where John was a Miner. The family immigrated to Brisbane, QLD in 1911 on board the Paparoa, and settled in Ipswich, QLD where James and his four sons all worked as Coal Miners. Fergus' brother James also served in WWI.
Fergus enlsited in the AIF in Brisbane, QLD in June 1915, and in September he married Mabel Fludena Perrett in Ipswich, QLD. He served with 31st Battalion and 69th Battalion (Private, Lance Corporal and Company Sergeant Major (Service no: 126) in Egypt and France (where he was WIA in 1918).
Following his return to Australia in 1919, Fergus and Mabel lived in Ipswich, QLD where Fergus worked as a Coal Miner. From September 1931 to September 1938, Fergus served with the AMF 7 Field Coy Australian Engineers as a Sapper (Service No: 121488) and in 1940 7 Australian Training Battalion Mobilisation Unit (Service No: Q69330).
He and Mabel continued to live at Perrett's Hill in Bundamba, Ipswich where Fergus was a Coal Miner until his death in 1945 - Fergus was one of four Miner entombed and killed in a mine explosion at the New Ebbw Vale No 3 Colliery in Wood End where Fergus was the Mining Deputy
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