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FOGARTY, Andrew Christopher
Personal Details
Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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Enlisted: | 22 February 1915, Melbourne, Vic. |
Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
Last Unit: | 24th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 28 January 1885 |
Home Town: | Kew, Boroondara, Victoria |
Schooling: | St Patricks (Catholic) College, Ballarat, Victoria, Ormond College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Occupation: | Grazier |
Died: | Killed In Action, Gallipoli, 29 November 1915, aged 30 years |
Cemetery: |
Lone Pine Cemetery, ANZAC Plot I, Row C, Grave No. 9 |
Memorials: | Coonamble Municipality and Wingadee Shire HR, Kew War Memorial, West Melbourne St. Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic Church Memorial Window |
Service History
World War 1 Service
22 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 24th Infantry Battalion, Melbourne, Vic. | |
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10 May 1915: | Involvement Lieutenant, 24th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
10 May 1915: | Embarked Lieutenant, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne | |
26 Aug 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 24th Infantry Battalion, Gallipoli | |
29 Nov 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 24th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
Lt Andrew Fogarty was killed in action in the trenches at Lone Pine on 29 November 1915 as a result of a Turkish artillery barrage that collapsed a dugout and killed 31 men, wounding another 100 others.