ANDERSON, Thomas Bonner
| Service Number: | 1012 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 September 1914, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Dundee, Scotland, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Narromine, Narromine, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Dusthope Public School, Dundee, Scotland |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Appendicitis, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, At sea (HMAT Themistocles A32), Liverpool, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 8 June 1915, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Lone Pine Cemetery, ANZAC Plot 11, Row D, Grave 2 , Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey, Chatby Memorial, Alexandria, Egypt, Liverpool Old Cemetery, Liverpool, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
Peacetime
| 10 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, HMAT A23 Suffolk from Sydney |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Jun 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 1012, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Served for 12 years in the Seaforth Highlanders, British Army; time expired.
Date of enlistment: 10.09.1914
He enlisted as a single man; he did not list wife as next of kin.
Place of enlistment: Sydney, NSW
His wife, Isabella Anderson, lived sometime at 119 Roseberry St, Dundee. He gave as Next of Kin, his sister, Isabella Bonner Anderson, 119 Roseberry Street, Lochee, Dundee, Scotland
They are known to have had one child, Alexina Bonnar [Bonner?] Anderson.
He was 38.
Dundee paid a high price for her war efforts. By the armistice, over 4,000 men and several women had made the ultimate sacrifice. Their names are recorded in the city’s Roll of Honour
Biography
2 Battalion
Rank - Corporal
5 April 1915 Embarked Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (Gallipoli Campaign),
1 May 1915 Promoted Corporal, .
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Son of the late Thomas and Margaret Anderson; husband of Isabella Bonner Anderson, of 125, Roseberry St., Lochee, Dundee, Scotland. Native of Dundee.