WICKHAM, Thomas Bond
| Service Number: | 667 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 April 1915, Broadmeadows, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 13th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Serpentine, Victoria, Australia, 1884 |
| Home Town: | Serpentine, Loddon, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Wool classer |
| Memorials: | Bendigo Great War Roll of Honor, Clunes Soldiers Pictorial Honour Roll, Serpentine Shire of East Loddon Great European War Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Apr 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 667, 13th Light Horse Regiment, Broadmeadows, Vic. | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 667, 13th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 667, 13th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney | |
| 11 Sep 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 667, 13th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 20 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 667, 13th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Borda, Melbourne | |
| 20 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 667, 13th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 1 Sep 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Trooper, 667, 13th Light Horse Regiment, Third Ypres | |
| 14 Apr 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Trooper, 667, 13th Light Horse Regiment, German Spring Offensive 1918 | |
| 5 Sep 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Trooper, 667, 13th Light Horse Regiment, "The Last Hundred Days" | |
| 21 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Trooper, 667, 13th Light Horse Regiment, RTA 13 July 1919 and discharged (TPE). |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
Thomas Bond Wickham enlisted in the AIF at Broadmeadows on 1 April 1915, aged almost 31. He embarked overseas on 25 June 1915, arrived in Egypt in late July, then landed at Gallipoli with the 13th Light Horse Regiment on 11 September 1915. He was evacuated back to Egypt and hospitalised with frost bite, and later enteric fever, from 11 December 1915 – 9 February 1916, at which time he was repatriated to Australia to recover.
He returned to duty on 15 May 1916, embarked overseas for the second time on 20 October and arrived in Plymouth on 9 January 1917. He left for France on 25 April where he re-joined the 13th Light Horse Regiment, assigned as cavalry for I ANZAC Corps, on 3 May 1917.
While the terrain and trench warfare of the Western Front was not generally conducive to cavalry operations, there were several occasions on which they played a very active part. This was particularly the case during the 1918 German Offensives on the Lys (April) and the Marne (July), and then between 5 – 9 September 1918 during the allied assault on the Hindenburg Outpost Line.
At war’s end, Trooper Wickham returned to England on 15 June 1919 and then departed for Australia on 13 July. He arrived back in Melbourne on 29 August, where he was formally discharged from the AIF on 21 October 1919.
Source: Extract from "Clunes Soldiers Memorial Panel" by Robert Wight, June 2022.
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