TAMS, Arthur
| Service Number: | 20988 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 June 1917, Served in Boer War (British Army?) |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 4th Divisional Signal Company |
| Born: | Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, November 1879 |
| Home Town: | Stockton, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Stationmaster |
| Died: | Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia, 10 May 1937, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 4-06. 18. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Jun 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 20988, 4th Divisional Signal Company, Served in Boer War (British Army?) | |
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| 21 Nov 1917: | Involvement Sapper, 20988, 4th Divisional Signal Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Nov 1917: | Embarked Sapper, 20988, 4th Divisional Signal Company, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne | |
| 20 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 20988, 4th Divisional Signal Company, 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.
86 years ago today, on the Wednesday afternoon of the 12th May 1937, Sapper Arthur Tams, 4th Australian Divisional Signals Company (Reg No-20988), stationmaster (Hamilton, N.S.W.), from Hunter Street, Stockton, New South Wales and 64 Everton Street, Hamilton, N.S.W., father of three, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 57. METHODIST 4-06. 18.
Migrated to Australia 1907.
Born at Rugeley, Staffordshire, England about 1880 to Leonard and Mary Tams; husband of Joyce Tams nee? (married?, died 23.1.1933, age-57, sleeping at CONGREGATIONAL-3CSW. 41.), also Sarah Jane Tams nee Heeps (married 1934, died 1977?), Arthur enlisted on the 26th June 1917 at Singleton, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on board HMAT A71 Nestor on the 21st November 1917.
Admitted to hospital 22.2.1918 (influenza), 5.3.1918 (not stated).
Arthur returned home on the 27th July 1919, being discharged on the 20th August 1919.
Not granted Victory Medal.
Mr. Tams’s name has been inscribed on the Stockton Masonic Lodge Peninsula No-221 Honour Roll. Name not inscribed on the Stockton Soldiers' Memorial or the Stockton Methodist Church Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at Arthur’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country, which is in urgent need of restoration.
Served in the Boer War.
Not officially commemorated.
Younger brother Albert (born about 1886, Weston on Trent, Staffordshire, England, storekeeper from Hunter Street, Stockton, New South Wales, enlisted 29.5.1916, 3rd Divisional Medium Trench Mortar Battery, Reg No-28985, KIA 29.9.1918, Mont Saint-Quentin, age 32) fell during The Great War.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
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Lest We Forget.
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