Regimental number | 267 |
Place of birth | Wangaratta, Victoria |
School | State School, Victoria |
Religion | Methodist |
Occupation | Miner |
Address | Eldorado, Victoria |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 19 |
Height | 5' 10.5" |
Weight | 162 lbs |
Next of kin | Father, Alfred Fealy, Eldorado, Victoria |
Previous military service | Was a member of the Eldorado Rifle Club. |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 37th Battalion, A Company |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/54/1 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A34 Persic on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 5th Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Menin Road, Belgium |
Age at death | 20 |
Age at death from cemetery records | 20 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 7), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 43 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Commemorated in El Dorado Cemetery, Victoria. Parents: Alfred Thomas and Elizabeth FEALY, El Dorado, Victoria |
Other details |
War service: Western Front Embarked from Melbourne, 3 June 1916; disembarked Plymouth, England, 25 July 1916. Proceeded overseas to France, 15 September 1916. Admitted to 3rd Australian Field Ambulance, 18 January 1917 (hernia); transferred to 5th General Hospital, Rouen, 20 January 1917; to 3rd Stationary Hospital, Rouen, 27 January 1917; to 2nd Convalescent Depot, 27 February 1917; discharged to Base Details, 31 March 1917; rejoined Bn, 10 May 1917. Killed in action, Belgium, 20 September 1917. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal Parents originally requested the Star of David to be incised on the headstone; when Base Records pointed out, in seeking confirmation, that the Star of David was 'typical of the Jewish faith', father replied requesting that the Cross be used instead. |