Topic: AIF - 3B - 8 LHR
8th LHR, AIF
8th Australian Light Horse Regiment
Stephen Frederick Monaghan
Stephen Frederick Monaghan
Address: 57 Lewisham Road, Windsor, Victoria.
Commemoration details: Jerusalem Memorial, Palestine.Conflict: 1914-1918.
Embarkation Age: 27.
Embarkation details: Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A66 Uganda on 21 June 1915.
Embarkation Roll number: 10/13/2.
Embarkation Unit name: 8th Light Horse Regiment, 6th Reinforcement.
Enlistment date: 24 February 1915.
Fate: Killed in Action 13 April 1916.
Marital status: Single.
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Next of kin: Mrs Elizabeth Monaghan, 57 Lewisham Road, Windsor, Victoria.
Occupation: Sawyer.
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial: 6.
Place of birth: Launceston, Tasmania.
Place of burial: No known grave.
Place of death: Jifjafa, Egypt.
Rank from Nominal Roll: Corporal.
Rank on enlistment: Private.
Rank at death: Corporal [Cpl].
Regimental number: 976.
Religion: Presbyterian.
Unit from Nominal Roll: 8th Light Horse Regiment.War Grave Register notes: 976 Corporal Stephen Frederick MONAGHAN, 8th Australian Light Horse. 13 April 1916. Age 28. Son of Edward and Eliza Monaghan, of 16 South Street, Southwark, South Australia. Native of Derby Tin Mine, Tasmania.
Lest We Forget
Sources Used:
National Archives Service File.
Embarkation Roll, AWM8, Class 10, Light Horse.
Nominal Roll, AWM133, Nominal Roll of Australian Imperial Force who left Australia for service abroad, 1914-1918 War.
Roll of Honour, AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army.
CWGC files, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Debt of Honour Register.
Collected Records of Steve Becker.
Further Reading:
8th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Roll of Honour
The Jifjafa Raid, Sinai, April 10 to 14
Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920
Citation: 8th LHR, Roll of Honour, Stephen Frederick Monaghan
