HANSON, Thomas August
| Service Number: | 3120 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 May 1916, 4 Months AMC, Newcastle |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 1st Australian Divisional Engineers |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 27 July 1879 |
| Home Town: | Carrington, Great Lakes, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Carter |
| Died: | Maryville, New South Wales, Australia, 2 December 1941, aged 62 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 1-30. 80. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 22 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3120, 1st Pioneer Battalion, 4 Months AMC, Newcastle | |
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| 17 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 3120, 1st Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 3120, 1st Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Borda, Sydney | |
| 27 Mar 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 3120, 1st Australian Divisional Engineers, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery, not forgotten.
81 years ago today, on the Wednesday afternoon of the 3rd December 1941, Sapper Thomas August Hanson, 1st Australian Pioneer Battalion (Engineers, Reg No-3120), carter from Little Denison Street, Carrington, New South Wales and 120 Lambton Road, New Lambton, N.S.W. and 10 Bell Street, Maryville, N.S.W., father of three (Stan, Syd, Yvonne), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 62. ANGLICAN 1-30. 80.
Born at Sydney, New South Wales on the 27th July 1879 (as HANSEN) to Thomas Henriquis S and Sarah Hanson; husband of Ada Mary Hanson nee Austin (married 1900, Merewether, N.S.W., died 1955, sleeping here, unfortunately, name not inscribed on headstone plaque), Thomas enlisted May 1916 at Carrington, N.S.W.
Thomas returned home invalided on the 1st February 1919 (medical reasons, injury to nose), being discharged on the 27th March 1919.
Not issued with Victory Medal.
Mr. Hanson’s name has not been inscribed on the Carrington Citizens' Memorial Gates or the Carrington Municipal District Roll of Honor or any known War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at the gravesite in remembrance of Thomas’s service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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