GALLAGHER, Frederick Arthur
| Service Number: | 3207 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 October 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 41st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bemboka, New South Wales, Australia, 1888 |
| Home Town: | Lismore, Lismore Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Eureka Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 5 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brisbane 41st Battalion Roll of Honour, Eureka Honor Roll, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3207, 41st Infantry Battalion | |
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| 7 Feb 1917: | Involvement Private, 3207, 41st Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Feb 1917: | Embarked Private, 3207, 41st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Frederick Arthur Gallagher, aged 29, in his first battle, was killed in action on 5 October 1917 when struck in the head by a piece of shell fragment. Although accurate map references are given as to his burial, his remains were never found and he is remembered on the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium.
Two Gallagher brothers from Eureka in the Northern Rivers district of NSW, enlisted together on the 30 October 1916. Neither of the brothers would survive the next 12 months. They left Australia together on the 7 February 1917, with consecutive regimental numbers, 3207 and 3208 in the 41st (Queensland) Battalion AIF.
The brothers only joined their battalion in Belgium mid way through August 1917. The younger brother Francis Joseph Gallagher, was hit by a shell during the 41st Battalion’s advance during the Battle of Broodseinde Ridge on the 4 October 1917. He was last seen badly wounded on a stretcher, and is buried in Ypres Reservoir Cemetery.
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