MORGAN, Keith
| Service Number: | NX51424 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 June 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Marengo, New South Wales, Australia, 23 July 1906 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Presumed, At sea (Nino Bixio), Mediterranean Sea, 17 August 1942, aged 36 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Col 94 |
| Memorials: | Alamein Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, NX51424, 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion | |
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| 27 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX51424, 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Keith was the eldest of eight children. His mother Ethel died in 1933 (see obituary: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/155307917) and his father, a school teacher, died about two months after Keith enlisted in 1940. Keith married Eva Ethel RUSS in Sydney in 1935 and they had one son.
Keith was one of 41 Australian POWs killed when the Italian transport ship Nino Bixio was torpedoed by a British submarine in the Mediterranean on 17 August 1942. The Nino Bixio was transporting Allied POWs from Libya to Italy. Of the 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident, four died later by execution. Most of the Australian casualties were from the 2/28th Infantry Battalion.