HARTLAND, Thomas Charles
| Service Numbers: | 2612, Q155924 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Signaller |
| Last Unit: | 4th Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 3 October 1894 |
| Home Town: | Jondaryan, Toowoomba, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 24 August 1979, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Acland War Memorial, Oakey War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2612, 26th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 21 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 2612, 26th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 2612, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Brisbane | |
| 20 Mar 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
| 31 Oct 1917: | Honoured Military Medal, London Gazette: 17 December 1917 Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 2 May 1918 | |
| 7 Jun 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 4th Machine Gun Company | |
| 5 Mar 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2612, 4th Machine Gun Company, per Armagh | |
| 14 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2612, 4th Machine Gun Company |
World War 2 Service
| 15 Apr 1944: | Enlisted | |
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| 17 Jan 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Signaller, Q155924, LoC Signals |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Thomas was the sixth of ten children of Benjamin Joseph Hartland (born 1862 in Staffordshire, England) and Eleanor Mary Munro (born 1866 at Moonie in QLD). Ben immigrated to Brisbane, QLD with his family in 1879 and married Eleanor in Toowoomba, QLD in 1890.
In 1915 Tom was a Labourer at Joondaryn on the Darling Downs in QLD when he enlisted with the AIF as a Private (Service No:2612), and served with 26 and 12 Infantry Battalions ad 4th Machine Gun Battalion in France and Belgium. He was awarded the Military Medal in October 1917 wheh he was serving with 12 Battalion 1st Australian Division 1st Anzac Corps under Authority 1st Anzac Routine Order No 188 - 'During the attack on Ploygon Wood, west of Ypres on 20/21st September 1917, Pte Hartland was a Stretcher Bearer. During the enemy barrage, when the Battalion was in the assembly position, he moved about regardless of his own safety, bandaging men and moving them to safety. After zero hour he remained in the danger zone until he got all the casualties away, afterwards reporting to the line and carried on his good work'. Brother John Munro Hartland (Service Nos: 57612 and Q141322) served in both wars, and Tom served again in WWII (Service No:Q155924).
Tom was Discharged in July 1919, and worked at Pittsworth on the Darling Downs as a Bootmaker and at Rosalie Downs at Joondaryn as a Labourer. In 1927 Tom married Irene Eunice Perrett (born 1893 at Bundamba in Ipswich, QLD) in Brisbane QLD. Irene was a Telephonist. Tom and Irene lived in Chinchilla, Dalby and Widgee where Tom worked as a Carpenter, Handyman, Car Proprietor and Linesman before moving to Brisbane, QLD, where Tom died in 1979 and Irene in 1980.
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