Joe Fogarty

Joseph Patrick "Joe" Fogarty (24 December 1885 – 28 June 1954), MC, OBE, M.B.B.S. (Melbourne), is a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne, Essendon and University in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He is one of four Fogarty brothers that played senior VFL football. He also served in the Australian Army Medical Corps in World War I, eventually attaining the rank of Major.

Joe Fogarty
Personal information
Full name Joseph Patrick Fogarty
Date of birth (1885-12-24)24 December 1885
Place of birth Hotham, Victoria
Date of death 28 June 1954(1954-06-28) (aged 68)
Place of death Armadale, Victoria
Original team(s) St Pats, Ballarat
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1905 South Melbourne 09 (5)
1906 Essendon 02 (3)
1908 University 05 (1)
Total 16 (9)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1908.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Family

One of the ten children, six boys and four girls, of the wealthy wine merchant and former Mayor of Hotham (now known as "North Melbourne") Thomas Fogarty (1836–1900) and Cecilia Mary Fogarty (1854–1933), née Cullen, Joe Fogarty was born on 24 December 1885 in Hotham, Victoria. He married Gladys Willshear (1890–1979), at Brompton Oratory, in England, on 24 December 1916.[1] He died at Armadale, Victoria on 28 June 1954.

Medical Officer Captain J.P. Fogarty (centre)
vaccinating Australian soldiers against cholera, in Egypt, August 1915, prior to them leaving for Gallipoli.

Footballer

Four of the six Fogarty brothers played VFL football: Thomas Bernard "Tom" Fogarty (1878–1922), played for St Kilda, South Melbourne, and University for a total of 95 games,[2] John Joseph Fogarty (1882–1952), played a single game for South Melbourne,[3] Andrew Christopher "Chris" Fogarty (1884–1915), played for Essendon and University for a total of 28 games,[4] and Joseph Patrick "Joe" Fogarty (1885–1954), played with South Melbourne, Essendon, and University for a total of 16 games.[5]

His nephew, Thomas Bernard Fogarty (1909–1984), son of his brother Tom, played 13 senior VFL games for St Kilda.[6]

Soldier

Enlisting in the Australian Army Medical Corps on 26 March 1915, Fogarty served in the Middle East and France with the 21st Battalion during World War I. On his way to the Dardanelles, his transport ship, the Southport, was torpedoed.[7]

He was appointed Captain on his enlistment, and was promoted to Major on 27 April 1917. He was awarded the Military Cross for bravery at Pozières in July 1916, and was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire for valuable special services during the war in December 1919.[8]

Medical practitioner

After the war, he took up a medical practice in Barkers Road, Kew, Victoria.[9]

See also

Footnotes
  1. Service record, p.19.
  2. AFL Statistics: Tom Fogarty.
  3. AFL Statistics: John Fogarty.
  4. AFL Statistics: Chris Fogarty.
  5. AFL Statistics: Joe Fogarty.
  6. AFL Statistics: Tom Fogarty.
  7. Main and Allen (2002), p.66.
  8. MIlitary Honours, The Argus, (Saturday, 14 February 1920), p.22.
  9. Australian Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour "Circular": Andrew Christopher Fogarty.

Sources
  • Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
  • Main, J. & Allen, D., "Fogarty, Chris", pp. 65–67 in Main, J. & Allen, D., Fallen – The Ultimate Heroes: Footballers Who Never Returned From War, Crown Content, (Melbourne), 2002.
  • Deaths: Fogarty, The Argus, (Tuesday, 29 June 1954), p.11.
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