Alec Bagot

E(dward) Arthur Bagot ( – 19 January 1930) of Kildoon, County Kildare, and mother had arrived in Adelaide on Ormuz on 21 July 1891.

Mrs Bagot had a daughter at 73 Hill Street, North Adelaide, and the son was born in Magill[1] on Christmas Day, 1893.

)[2] He joined the Australian Imperial Forces as a lieutenant in the 1st Australian (Wireless) Signals Squadron, led by Major Charles William Marr, and left on Karmala for the Middle East on 21 September 1916 and served in India and Mesopotamia, Mentioned in Despatches in 1918 (once not twice, and contrary to some references he was never awarded a DSO), promoted to captain on 1 October 1918 and returned to Australia on 14 April, his appointment terminating in Adelaide on 23 May 1919.

[2] After the war he spent another eight years organising tourist services between Iraq, Persia (now Iran) and Syria for the Mesopotamian Trading Agency of Ashar, Basrah.

[6] Despite a second successful round trip that year, Bagot abandoned his idea of regular service when the Commonwealth Government turned down his application for a subsidy.

[14] After several abortive attempts to enter parliament, he was elected to the Southern District seat on the South Australian Legislative Council in a by-election in 1938,[15] largely on his stand against five year parliamentary terms.

In the absence of evidence, his mother never abandoned hope of his survival and spent years searching for the facts surrounding his disappearance, to the discomfort of the Air Force's Missing Research and Enquiry Service.