Thomas Hedley PORTER

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Service Numbers:	Not yet discovered
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	44th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Edithburgh, South Australia, 17 October 1875
Home Town:	Greenmount, Mundaring, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Natural Causes , Greenmount, Western Australia, 11 September 1943, aged 67 years
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Wesleyan section
Memorials:

4 Mar 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 10th Light Horse Regiment, Allocated as OIC to the 33rd reinforcement’s 10th Light Horse. ( ex 44th Infantry Battalion)
13 Mar 1918:	Involvement Lieutenant, 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: SS Ormonde embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
13 Mar 1918:	Embarked Lieutenant, 10th Light Horse Regiment, SS Ormonde, Fremantle
4 Apr 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Lieutenant, AIF Headquarters (Egypt), TOS from Australia. To Australian Base Camp Suez for onward movement to reinforce 44th Battalion UK
25 May 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 9th Training Battalion (AIF), TOS from AIF list UK for period of instruction Khandhar Barracks.
27 Sep 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 44th Infantry Battalion, Taken on Strength of the Battalion in the field France
9 Apr 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 44th Infantry Battalion, RTA on HT Sardinia for demobilisation ex 1915 personnel.
20 Jul 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 44th Infantry Battalion, Discharged 5 MD termination Period of Enlistment.

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Thomas Hedley Porter/ Served as:

111 Private 4th Contingent Western Australian Mounted Rifles , South Africa 1900-1901.

204 Private A Company 11th Battalion AIF Egypt, Gallipoli 1914-1915; GSW Head and Enteric Fever. RTA.

452 Sergeant C Company 44th Infantry Battalion AIF England & France 1916-17. Promoted 2nd Lieutenant in the field; GSW Back, RTA.

Lieutenant OIC of 33rd Reinforcement's for 10th Light Horse Regiment Suez 1918. Onward staging to Unit 44th Battalion AIF England & France 1918-19.

Mention in Dispatches South Africa 1901.

Awards

Queens South Africa Medal, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal & Victory Medal.

Died age 67 in Greenmount WA in 1943.