Olaf Neilsen THORSHEIM

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THORSHEIM, Olaf Neilsen

Service Number:	3022
Enlisted:	11 March 1916, Tumby Bay South Australia Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	32nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Bergen, Hordaland, Norway, 18 December 1889
Home Town:	Tumby Bay, Tumby Bay, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Sailor
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 30 September 1917, aged 27 years
Cemetery:	Tyne Cot Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium LXI. A. 1.
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Butler WW1 Memorial, Tumby Bay RSL Portrait Memorials, Tumby Bay War Memorial

World War 1 Service

11 Mar 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3022, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1
11 Mar 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Tumby Bay, South Australia
11 Mar 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Tumby Bay South Australia Australia
11 Apr 1916:	Embarked Private, 3022, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Adelaide
11 Apr 1916:	Involvement Private, 3022, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
11 Apr 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3022, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas (A60), Adelaide
31 Jul 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3022, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, Killed in the attack on Polygon Wood on the 30th September 1917
26 Sep 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3022, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Polygon Wood
Date unknown:	Involvement 32nd Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix)

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Biography contributed by Robert Kearney

Was a member of the Tumby Bay Rifle Club

Biography

Born in Bergen, Norway

Living in Tumby Bay, he was a member of the local rifle club and a sailor.

Enlisted 11 March 1916 at Tumby Bay office.

Embarked with 6th Reinforcements of the 32nd Battalion at Adelaide on 11 April 1916.

Upon reaching Etaples, France he was admitted to hospital with German Measles on 29 July 1916. He was discharged on 8 August 1916.

Joined the 32nd Battalion on 26 August 1916.

A couple days later he was admitted to the 14th Field Ambulance with Bronchitis, but re-joined his unit on 1 September 1916.

On 22 September he was absent without leave from his unit from 10am to 1:45pm.

He was evacuated to England from the front line with Trench Feet on 30 October 1916. After being discharged he spent time in various personal camps throughout England before proceeding overseas to France on 15 June 1917.

He officially re-joined his unit on 8 July 1917.

Killed in Action on 30 September 1917 - no record of death.

Buried in in rural area without a cross above his grave. Body later exhumed and identified and thus reburied in Tyne Cot.

British War Medal: 37491

Victory Medal: 37188

Memorial Plaque and Scroll: 333029

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