Fagg, Stephen
SURNAME
Fagg
NAME
Stephen
PLACE OF BIRTH
Maryborough, QLD
OCCUPATION
Horse Breaker
PLACE OF ENLISTMENT
Port Douglas
DATE OF ENLISTMENT
9-01-1915
NEXT OF KIN
Mrs Sharon Fagg (mother), Bundaberg
LINK TO DOUGLAS SHIRE
Arrived Mossman about 1909, worked as a horse breaker; enlisted Port Douglas.
REGIMENT 1
Special units
REGIMENT 2
Other Light Horse
RANK
Driver
CAMPAIGN 1
Western Front
OTHER INFORMATION
Constant ill health since childhood. Regiment was unallotted Light Horse 17th AASC.
STORY OUTLINE
Stephen Fagg, originally from Maryborough, became a horsebreaker in the Mossman district. He enlisted in January 1915 and embarked from Brisbane on the HMAS Melbourne in June 1915.
He was assigned to the 17th AASC (Australian Army Service Corps) in the unallotted Light Horse as a Driver. He was hospitalised in May 2016 with Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
A year later, 28-06-1917, he was discharged from the Army. The hardships encountered at the war had an adverse effect on his constitution.
A respected invalid pensioner at Mossman, he died in the Port Douglas Hospital on 22 February 1929.
SERVICE NO
6503
