Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

25/07/1915

Place of Enlistment

Goulburn NSW

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

New York City, United States of America

Address (at enlistment)

Federal Brickworks (Yarralumla) ACT

Occupation

Bricklayer

Next of Kin

Son of John and Elizabeth Morgan; husband of Hannah Morgan, of Maesgwryn, Dyfryn Rd., Alltwen, Pontardawe, Glamorgan, Wales.

Service Number

2730

Final Rank

Lance Corporal

Final Unit

3 Battalion AIF

Died (killed in action) on 24 December 1916 near Gueudecourt, France, aged 35 years

26 Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France
AWM Roll of Honour Memorial Panel 37, Canberra ACT

Thomas Morgan was born in New York City but his family came from the Swansea district of South Wales. He was a bricklayer by trade and living at the "Federal Brickworks" in Canberra when he enlisted, just before his 34th birthday, in Goulburn along with another 'brickie', Robert Findlater. He embarked for Egypt as a Private with reinforcements to the 18th Battalion in November 1915 but was taken on strength with the 3rd Battalion in Egypt in February 1916. He arrived in France at the end of March 1916 and served at Pozières during July 1916 where he was shot in the hand. Morgan rejoined his unit in late August and was appointed a Lance Corporal in October after which the 3rd Battalion moved to the Flers sector. On Christmas Eve 1916 he was killed in action in the front line and buried where he fell in the vicinity of Fritz' Folly and Fatigue Trench near Gueudecourt, France.

Description - height 5 feet 6inches, weight 155 pounds, chest 34 inches, fair complexion, blue eyes, light brown hair, Church of England, three inch scar on the inside of his left knee.

AWM Roll of Honour Database
AWM Collection Record: P04291.001
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Queanbeyan Leader - 15 October 1915
Queanbeyan Age - 6 August 1915