FOX, Marshall Tregellis
| Service Number: | 1462 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 February 1915, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 11th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Cue, Western Australia, February 1896 |
| Home Town: | Narrogin, Narrogin, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Perth Modern School |
| Occupation: | Student |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 1 August 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula Plot II, Row G, Grave No. 27, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Narrogin War Memorial, Nedlands Scotch College WW1 Honour Roll, Subiaco Fallen Soldiers Memorial, Subiaco Perth Modern School WW1Honour Board, Subiaco Perth Modern School War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1462, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia | |
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| 22 Feb 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1462, 11th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Itonus embarkation_ship_number: A50 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Feb 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1462, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Itonus, Fremantle | |
| 7 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1462, 11th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 1 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1462, 11th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Paul Trevor
'To the right is a studio portrait of 1462 Private (Pte) Marshall Trigellis Fox, 11th Battalion of Subacio, WA (on the left) and 1504 Pte (later Lance Corporal) John Shaw Anderson, 11th Battalion of Fremantle, WA (right). Pte Fox and Pte Anderson were friends and prefects of the Perth Modern School before they enlisted in January 1915. Fox had qualified for admission to university, and Anderson had qualified to study as an accountant. Although they enlisted seperately and were in separate reinforcement groups, the pair met up and left Australia for Egypt on the same troop transport in February 1915.
According to the Perth Modern School newspaper 'The Sphinx', Fox's departure was premature, owing to the serious illness of one of the other men: "His departure was so sudden that he was unable to come up to the school to say good-bye. 'I don't want you to think that I am one of those fellows', he wrote to the Head Master, 'who get all they can from the school and then let it pass away completely out of their mind". Arriving on Gallipoli in May 1915, both Fox and Anderson were killed during the 11th Battalion's attack on Tasmania Post on 1 August 1915. According to the school newspaper "It was later still that we heard that the two friends had died together, the one succouring the other as he fell".
Later correspondence received by the school from a member of the 11th Battalion which read: "I feel particularly sorry for two boys who had just left the Modern School who I am sure, had great careers before them...They died side by side, the second one while looking at the first one's wounds. All who know say the same as I do, that they feel sorrier over their loss than anybody else's". Both Anderson and Fox were aged 19.' from Australian War Memorial Photograph Collection (www.awm.gov.au)
'KILLED IN ACTION.
FOX - On August 1, killed in action, at the Dardanelles, Private M. T. (Trig) Fox, of B. Company, 11th Battalion, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Fox, Heytesbury Road, Subiaco.' from The West Australian 2 Sep 1915 (nla.gov.au)
'Personal.
Much sympathy has been locally expressed for Mr. Marshall Fox (late District Surveyor at Narrogin), whose son M. T. Fox, was recently killed at the Dardanelles.' from Wickepin Argus 9 Sep 1915 (nla.gov.au)
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