FILLODEAU, Alexander Mary
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Chaplains' Department |
| Born: | Charron, France, 1868 |
| Home Town: | Kempsey, Kempsey, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Roman Catholic Clergyman |
| Died: | Sydney, NSW, 28 October 1936, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Randwick General Cemetery, New South Wales |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Sep 1916: | Involvement Australian Army Chaplains' Department, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Sydney embarkation_ship_number: A15 public_note: '' | |
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| 1 Sep 1916: | Embarked Australian Army Chaplains' Department, HMAT Port Sydney, Sydney |
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Born 1868 in Charron, France
Resided Kempsey, NSW
Aged 48 years
Enlisted 10 August 1916 for Continuous Service
Embarked 01 September 1916 per 'HMAT Port Sydney' from Sydney, NSW
Returned to Australia 21 July 1917
Died 28 October 1936
Aged 68 years
Buried Randwick Cemetery
FR. A. M. FILLODEAU
The Rev. Fr. A. M. Fillodeau, aged 68, died on Wednesday at the Lewisham Hospital, in Sydney. The deceased priest was ordained in England on December 23, 1894, and commenced work in the Diocese of Lismore in 1910. He was a chaplain at the Great War from January 1917, to September of the following year. Returning to Australia at the end of 1917 he became parish priest at Port Macquarie and held the position until January of this year, when he resigned owing to ill health. Up to the time of his death he was acting as chaplain to the De la Salle Training College at Castle Hill (N.S.W.).
Northern Star Friday 30 October 1936 page 13
FATHER FILLODEAU DEAD.
Well-known French Missionary.
The death occurred in Lewisham Hospital, Sydney, on Wednesday, 28th nlt, of Rev. Father A. M. Fillodeau. The deceased priest was born at Charron, in France, in 1868. and ordained in England on December 23, 1894. He commenced work in the Lismore Diocese after spending ten years in the missions in Papua. He was a chaplain in the Great War from January, 1917, and rendered service in Rabaul and France. Returning to Australia at the end of 1917, he was appointed to the parish of Port Macquarie, where he remained until the end of last year, when he resigned owing to ill-health.'After an extended holiday amongst the mountains of New Guinea, hope of Father Fillodeau 's restoration to health was bright. Whilst acting as chaplain to the De La Salle College at Oakhill he sustained a slight fall, injuring his leg, and while under treatment for this at Lewisham Hospital, complications developed,and with tragic suddenness he passed away, having received the Last Sacraments from Very Rev. Father T. Phclan, P.P. (Chancellor of the Archdiocese). Throughout his life, Father Fillodeau manifested an ardent missionary spirit, and had planned to return to Papua' at the end of 1937.
The Catholic Press Thursday 05 November 1936 page 13
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