In Memory of FRANCIS GEORGE MORGAN Corporal 3426 49th Bn. Australian Infantry, A.I.F who died on Tuesday, 19th October 1917. Died aged 27.
Son of George and Mary Jane MORGAN, of Hungerford, (cottage now called Greenways), Fordingbridge. In the 1901 census his father ‘George’ is a farm labourer and he was 11 years old with his brother ‘Sidney’, also was lost during the war, was 3 years old.
Commemorative Information
MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY,
Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium Grave III.J.8
Ypres (now Leper) is a town in the province of West Flanders. The military cemetery is located 2 kilometres east of Leper town centre. The cemetery was first used in 1916 and continued until the summer of 1918 with over 1,500 casualties commemorated.
Source – Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Notes
49th (Queensland) Bn, was in 4th Australian Div. Cpl. MORGAN died during closing stages of 3rd battle of Ypres, better known as Passchendaele which lasted from 31st july to 10th November 1917.
Source – work done by Carole Standeven