ALCOCK, Thomas Frederick
| Service Number: | 3004 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 55th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Patricks Plain, New South Wales, Australia, 20 October 1887 |
| Home Town: | Newtown (NSW), Inner West, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tram driver |
| Died: | SW to head, Mont St Quentin, Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia, 14 May 1920, aged 32 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 1-C Spec. 14. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hamilton St Mary's Marist Bros' School Newcastle Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3004, 17th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 20 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 3004, 17th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 3004, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suevic, Sydney | |
| 1 Sep 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3004, 55th Infantry Battalion, Mont St Quentin / Peronne, SW to head, severe | |
| 2 May 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3004, 55th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD - wounds, Mont St Quentin |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
103 years ago today, on the Saturday afternoon of the 15th May 1920, Private Thomas Frederick Alcock, 55th Battalion (Reg No-3004), tram driver (Tempe tramways workshops), from 12 Watkin Street, Newtown, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 32. CATHOLIC 1-C Spec. 14.
Thomas had passed away on the 14th May 1920 at the Prince Alfred Hospital, N.S.W.
Born at Patricks Plain, New South Wales on the 20th October 1887 to James and Jane Alcock of Hamilton Street, Hamiton North, New South Wales and "St. Elmo", 22 Denison Street, Hamilton, N.S.W., Thomas enlisted on the 6th September 1915 with the 17th Battalion at Sydney, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A29 Suevic on the 20th December 1915.
Wounded in action - 1.9.1918 (GSW or SW head, compound fracture, severe, dangerously ill, Battles of Mont St Quentin).
Transferred to England 28.9.1918.
Admitted to hospital 29.9.1918.
Thomas was invalided home on the 5th January 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 2nd May 1919.
Mr. Alcock’s name has been inscribed on the Dudley Public School Honour Board, St. Mary's-Marist Bros' School (Newcastle) Honour Roll and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not inscribed on the NSW Govt Railways and Tramways Roll of Honour, 1914-1919.
Service record states Died after Discharge, 14/5/1920.
I have placed poppies upon Thomas’s brown granite headstone in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Older brother Morton Gervasius (Gervase, Gervius, born ? ? 1885, Patricks Plain, New South Wales, wharfinger from "St. Elmo", 22 Denison Street, Hamilton, N.S.W., enlisted 16.5.1915, 19th Battalion, Reg No-1651, RTA, 26.8.1919, 2nd Battalion, died 30.1.1939, Glen Innes, N.S.W., age 53, laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, 1.2.1939, CATHOLIC 1-C Spec. 9, unmarked grave, wooden cross to be erected – note, name has not been added to the Sandgate Cemetery database) also served 1st A.I.F.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
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Lest We Forget.
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