MCCORD, Thomas Harold
| Service Number: | 1975 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 June 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 17th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia, 29 April 1883 |
| Home Town: | Mount Victoria, Blue Mountains Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tram Driver |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Belgium, 22 September 1917, aged 34 years |
| Cemetery: |
Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Poperinghe, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Mount Victoria War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1975, 17th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool. | |
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| 9 Aug 1915: | Involvement Private, 1975, 17th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Aug 1915: | Embarked Private, 1975, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Runic, Sydney | |
| 20 Sep 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1975, 17th Infantry Battalion, Admitted to Wessex Field Ambulance with gunshot wounds to both legs, his right shoulder and right arm. Died of those wounds two days later. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Thomas Harold MCCORD (Service Number 1975) was born on 29th April 1883 at Queanbeyan. He first worked for the NSW Tramways as a casual conductor from26th January 1909. By July 1914 he had progressed to be a tram driver. On 9th June 1915 he was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces and enlisted the same day at Liverpool. He was not married and gave his mother, Katherine Lucy, as his next of kin.
He was allotted to the 3rd Reinforcement to the 17th Battalion and embarked HMAT ‘Runic’ at Sydney on 9th August 1915. After further time training in Egypt he proceeded to join the Mediterranean Force on board the ‘Argyllshire’. He was taken on the strength of the 17th Battalion at Gallipoli on 8th December 1915 – only days before the general evacuation. He was back in Alexandria by January 1916. He embarked there to join the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front, passing through Marseilles on 23rd March.
On 20th September 1916 McCord was wounded in action and admitted to the Wessex Field Ambulance with gunshot injuries to both legs and his right shoulder and arm. He died of those wounds two days later and was buried in the Mendinghem British Cemetery 4½ miles NW of Poperinghe.
A pension £2 per fortnight was granted to his mother from 2nd December 1917.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.