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War Memorial
Australia

Son of Albert Ernest and Susan Maria McFadzen, of Bungendore, New South Wales

HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE...EVER REMEMBERED

OBITUARY
Pte. OWEN McFADZEAN
Private Owen McFadzen, news of whose death was received some weeks ago, was the elder son of Mr., and Mrs. A McFadzen, of Rutledge Street, Bungendore. He was 25 years of age. Private McFadzen  had been in the service for seven years, for prior to his enlistment with the A.I.F. he was a member of the Permanent Forces at Duntroon for a period of 3 1/2 years. In 1942 he sailed with the 6th  Division, 2/1 Batt., for the Middle East, and on his return was sent to New Guinea, where his company, was in the first push over the Owen Stanley Range. Stricken with malaria, he was placed on the  seriously ill list and as, flown from the field hospital, to Port Moresby military hospital. He was later, a patient at Redbank, Yaralla, Ingleburn and the 114th A.G.H., Goulburn. In November, 1944, he embarked for the third time. He was serving, as senior despatch carrier some where between Wewak and Aftape, when he was fatally wounded by shrapnel from a Japanese mortar bomb. In a letter to Private McFadzen's mother, Captain C. J. Prior, with whom the young soldier had served for four years, said that he was a loyal and efficient soldier, whose devotion to duty won the respect and affection of the, whole company. Several of his mates also wrote testifying to his splendid service carried out in the best traditions of the Australian Army.
Besides his parents, Pte. Mc.Fadzen is survived by three sisters, Lorna (Mrs. K. Bladen, Captain's Flat), Joan and Beverley, and one brother, John (Bungendore).