FAY, Morgan Augustine John
| Service Number: | 3266 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 November 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 38th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Coburg, Victoria. Australia, 9 May 1888 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | St Patricks College , Victoria. Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 9 June 1918, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: |
Adelaide Cemetery Villers-Bretonneux, France Adelaide Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Nov 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3266, 38th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 22 Dec 1917: | Involvement Private, 3266, 38th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1917: | Embarked Private, 3266, 38th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Enlisted and served under the alias of George BARRY
Mrs. Frances Marie Fay, who lived at various addresses in East Melbourne, 38 and 42 Albert St., 151 Hotham St.,and Brunswick St. South (now Morrison Place), had been widowed for eight years in 1914, when the war began. She had to wait as her three sons enlisted; only one of them was to return from the front. This son, Morgan Augustus Fay, signed up under a false name as George Barry, was taken on with the 38th Battalion and died at Villers-Brettonneux. Another son, 1449 Driver Patrick Alphonsus Fay, enlisted with the 3rd Light Horse and returned from the war. The third, 6016A Private Francis William Fay 14th Battalion AIF, died in France 28 November 1918 of influenza contracted in the trenches.
His mother wrote a 3 page letter to the AIF which is in his service file, "I was in Sydney for nearly eighteen months housekeeping for another son and it was shortly before my return here that my son Morgan enlisted. There was not any quarrel between my deceased son, but my going to Sydney upset him much. I certainly feel it my right to have any little thing belonging to my boy, just for the reason that they were handled by him. Not even the poor comfort of a line of condolence or particulars of his death have been sent to me his fond mother.........."