KELLY, Thomas Arthur
| Service Number: | 5041 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 March 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 22nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Boweya, Victoria, Australia, 16 September 1892 |
| Home Town: | Boweya, Wangaratta, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 4 October 1917, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bowyea State School No 2488 Roll of Honor, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Thoona War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5041, 22nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 3 Jul 1916: | Involvement Private, 5041, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ayrshire embarkation_ship_number: A33 public_note: '' | |
| 3 Jul 1916: | Embarked Private, 5041, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ayrshire, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Thomas joined the 22nd Battalion in France during late 1916 and was wounded during April 1917. He was evacuated to England with a gunshot wound to his shoulder and didn’t rejoin the unit until June 1917. Four months later at the Battle of Broodseinde Ridge in Belgium, Private Kelly was seen to be killed by gunfire in no mans land, when the attacking soldiers of the 22nd Battalion ran into a like force of Germans attacking on the morning of 4 October 1917.
His older brother, 185 Pte George Abner Kelly 2nd Battalion AIF, died of disease in England 17 April 1916 and another brother 506 Pte Charles Samuel Kelly, 1st Machine Gun Battalion, returned to Australia in 1918.
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