Hugh Robert FEGAN

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Service Number:	320
Enlisted:	14 September 1914, Enlisted at Mildura, Vic.
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	14th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 1886
Home Town:	Bendigo, Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Schooling:	St Andrews and Marist Brothers Catholic School, Victoria
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Died of wounds - gunshot wound to the lung, At sea on board HSNZ Maheno, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 28 August 1915
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave Panel 40 Rev. Q.B. Seifgreif officiated, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bendigo Great War Roll of Honor, Bendigo Marist Brothers College Great War Honour Roll, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Mildura Cenotaph, Mildura Workingmans Club War Memorial

14 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 320, 14th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Mildura, Vic.
22 Dec 1914:	Embarked Private, 320, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
22 Dec 1914:	Involvement Private, 320, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
19 May 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 320, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Bullet wound to the leg and invalided to Heliopolis on 7 June 1915
24 Aug 1915:	Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 14th Infantry Battalion, In the field
26 Aug 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Corporal, 320, 14th Infantry Battalion, Gunshot wound to the lung
28 Aug 1915:	Involvement Corporal, 320, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 320 awm_unit: 14 Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1915-08-28

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Son of Hugh and Mary Fegan of Forest Street, Bendigo, Vic. Brother of Eileen O'Donnell (nee Fegan) of Camberwell, Vic.

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal