HUXTABLE, Thomas Leonard
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | 4 April 1916, Graduate of Duntroon Military College |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, 4 February 1897 |
| Home Town: | Woollahra, Woollahra, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Soldier |
| Died: | Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia, 6 July 1970, aged 73 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Apr 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 9th Machine Gun Company, Graduate of Duntroon Military College | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Lieutenant, 9th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Lieutenant, 9th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 2 Mar 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 9th Machine Gun Company, Shrapnel wound left arm - severe. Arm amputated. | |
| 10 Jul 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 3rd Machine Gun Company, Promoted to Hon Captain |
Thomas Leonard HUXTABLE
From ACT Memorial Site
Huxtable entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon on 12 March 1914 and graduated on 3 April 1916. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant with the 9th Machine Gun Company, along with fellow RMC cadets David Whitehead and Charles Wedd, and embarked for England with them in May 1916. He attended a Staff Officer's training course at Cambridge before joining his unit in January 1917 in the Armentières sector of northern France. Huxtable suffered a compound fracture to the left arm when wounded on 23 February 1917 and it was amputated five weeks later at hospital in England. After convalescing, Huxtable attended various training courses and was attached to AIF Headquarters before returning to France and rejoining his unit (now designated as the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion) in June 1918. After the Armistice he was temporarily commissioned as a Lieutenant with the British Army and eventually returned to Australia in July 1920. Huxtable retired from the army in 1926 and died in Cronulla near Sydney on 6 July 1970.
Description - height 5 feet 9 inches, weight 152 pounds, chest 35-38½ inches, Methodist.
Submitted 16 March 2019 by Evan Evans
Biography contributed by Kathleen Bambridge
Hon. Captain Thomas Leonard Huxtable 3rd Machine Gun Battalion embarked with his wife on the SS Ceramic from the United Kingdom on 12 March 1920.
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