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KELLY, Thomas Francis
Personal Details
Service Number: | 371 |
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Enlisted: | 8 May 1916, Teralba, New South Wales |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 21st Machine Gun Company |
Born: | Barrington, Queensland, February 1894 |
Home Town: | Hamilton, Southern Grampians, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Rigger |
Died: | Died of wounds, France, 22 October 1917 |
Cemetery: |
Etaples Military Cemetery Plot XXX, Row F, Grave No. 10, Etaples Military Cemetery, Etaples, Nord Pas de Calais, France |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
Service History
World War 1 Service
8 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 371, Teralba, New South Wales | |
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19 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 371, 5th Machine Gun Company, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Commonwealth embarkation_ship_number: A73 public_note: '' | |
19 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 371, 5th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Commonwealth, Melbourne | |
15 Jan 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 21st Machine Gun Company | |
26 Sep 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 371, 21st Machine Gun Company , Third Ypres, Shell wound (back, buttock and left thigh) | |
22 Oct 1917: | Involvement Private, 371, 21st Machine Gun Company , Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 371 awm_unit: 21st Australian Machine Gun Company awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-22 |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
'DIED OF WOUNDS.
PRIVATE KELLY.— Mrs. J. Black, Beaumont-street, Hamilton, has been informed that her only son, Private Thomas Francis Kelly, died of wounds on October 22nd.' from Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate 3 Nov 1917 (nla.gov.au)