John THOMSON

THOMSON, John

Service Number: 1273
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Lance Corporal
Last Unit: 15th Field Ambulance
Born: Coull, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. , date not yet discovered
Home Town: Perth, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Carpenter
Died: Killed in Action, France, 13 March 1918, age not yet discovered
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Coolup War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
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World War 1 Service

14 Dec 1914: Involvement Lance Corporal, 1273, 2nd Stationary Hospital (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: ''
14 Dec 1914: Embarked Lance Corporal, 1273, 2nd Stationary Hospital (AIF), HMAT Kyarra, Fremantle
13 Mar 1918: Involvement Lance Corporal, 1273, 15th Field Ambulance, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1273 awm_unit: 15th Australian Field Ambulance awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-03-13

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

He was 34 and the son of the late John and Mary Ann Thomson, of Daisy Cottage, Torphins, Aberdeenshire.

Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Enlisted Perth WA

He was 34 and the son of the late John & Mary Ann Thomson, Daisy Cottage, Torphins. 


City Roll of Honour: 691 George Street. 

There are five Australian soldier casualties of the Great War honoured on this memorial and also a Pilot Officer of the Royal Australian Air Force  who died in WWII.

The others are:

Private WILLIAM BEWS,   493 31st Bn Australian Infantry 

Trooper JOHN WILLIAM  GAVIN, 1385 Australian Expeditionary Force, 9th Light Horse 

Private GEORGE GORDON, 1683 50th Bn Australian Infantry.

Lt Col JOHN ALEXANDER MILNE,  DSO 36th Bn Australian Expeditionary Force  

Pilot Officer WILLIAM GEORGE CRUICKSHANK, Royal Australian Air Force.

Kincardine O'Neil - Kincardine & Deeside District 
UKNIWM Ref No. 5854 

The people of Torphins decided to build a memorial hospital and it was named the Kincardine O'Neil Memorial Hospital. It is therefore possible that the names listed on this Kincardine O'Neil memorial are the same as those listed on the Torphins monument.

The Kincardine O'Neil war memorial is a rustic granite pillar with a pinkish hue set on a pedestal with an inverted sword carved in shallow relief on the face of the pillar. The pedestal is set into a rough cairn of tumbled boulders. The commemoration and names of the dead are listed on dressed granite tablets set into the face of the pedestal. 
The monument stands in gardens by the roadside of the A93 in the village.

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