GRAHAM, Thomas Charles
| Service Number: | V56621 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 August 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Mildura, Victoria, Australia , 27 February 1918 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Economics Student |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 March 1959, aged 41 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 12 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V56621 | |
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| 20 Jul 1942: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V56621, Melbourne University Rifles | |
| Date unknown: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V56621 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Thomas Charles Graham (Service No:V56621) enlisted in the ACMF on 13 August 1940 and was attached to Melbourne University Rifles when he Discharged on 20 July 1942.
Born in 1918 in Mildura Victoria, Tom was the eldest of three children of William Little Graham (b1892 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Amelia Mary Rawlings (b1893 in Mildura, Victoria). William (a Bank Clerk) and Amelia married in 1917 in Mildura, Victoria. By 1919 they were living in Melbourne, Victoria where William was a Bank Manager.
Tom was an Engineering Student at the University of Melbourne and in 1941 married Barbara Winifred Bedford Russell (b1919 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Barabara was a Public Servant. By 1944 Tom had joined the Civil Service as a Research Officer with the Department of Labour and Natural Resources. Tom and Barbara settled in Melbourne, Victoria - and spent some time in London. Tom worked as a Civil Servant and died in 1959. Barbara died in 2011.
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