WORGAN, Cecil Allan

Name – WORGAN, Cecil Allan
Born – 2/04/1915
Died – 23/11/1915
Location – No 4 Methodist Section
Mother – Victoria Eliza Kerr
Father – John Wallace Worgan

Notes – Cecil was born to Victoria and John Worgan in 1915 and he died soon after at Tara. He was the youngest child of his parents. His siblings were William James, Victoria, Donald, Eileen, John and Vera.

His father John Worgan was born in Flaxley, Gloucestershire, England and arrived in Australia in 1875. He married Victoria in Rockhampton in 1900. His mother died in 1917, when she went to Brisbane to meet her husband who was returning from war. She was taken ill and hospitised and died two days later from puerperal sepeis and syncope. Which is caused by complications from childbirth or breast feeding. Poor family.

John and Victoria came to Tara in December 1913. John enlisted in the Australian Army in 1915 and went overseas for a few years. After he was discharged they lived at Wiembilla via Chinchilla.

Cecil has no headstone.

Newspaper Article – Read here.

War Service File  –

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