MCEVOY, Thomas
| Service Number: | 1200 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Catherine Hill Bay, New South Wales, Australia, 31 May 1895 |
| Home Town: | Merewether, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Newcastle South Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Blacksmith's striker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 22 August 1918, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
Bray Military Cemetery Plot II, Row I, Grave No.15 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1200, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 1200, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 1200, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 22nd August 1918, Private Thomas McEvoy, 35th Battalion (Reg No-1200), iron worker (blacksmith's striker, A. Goninan and Company), from 30 Winsor Street, Merewether, New South Wales, was Killed in Action by machine gun bullets, Bray-sur-Somme, northern France, August 1918 Offensive, age 23.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Catherine Hill Bay, New South Wales on the 31st May 1895 to Patrick R (died 26.12.1940, Merewether, N.S.W., age 83), from 30 Winsor Street, Merewether, New South Wales and 34 Winsor Street, Merewether, N.S.W., and Sarah Ann McEvoy nee Pattison (died 16.11.1919, Merewether, N.S.W., age 58, mother of 8?), from 30 Winsor Street, Merewether, New South Wales, Tom enlisted on the 16th January 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A24 Benalla on the 1st May 1916.
Disembarked Plymouth, England 9.7.1916.
Admitted to hospital 30.1.1917 (GSW right foot, self-inflicted while in the field), 28.2.1917 (concussion from an exploding shell), 10.11.1917 (shell shock), 21.6.1918 (influenza).
Mr. McEvoy is resting at Bray Military Cemetery, France. Plot II Row I Grave 15.
Many thanks to Thierry Grier for the cemetery and headstone photos.
Place of Association - Merewether, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Tom’s name has been inscribed on the Merewether (Mitchell Park) Memorial Gates, Newcastle South Public School Roll of Honour, A. Goninan and Company Roll of Honour, Hamilton-Rose of Hamilton Lodge, G.U.O.O.F. Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not inscribed on the Merewether Public School Roll of Honor.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised McEvoy gravesite in remembrance of their son’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Older brother George (born 26.4.1890, Broadmeadow, N.S.W., single labourer from 30 Winsor Street, Merewether, New South Wales, enlisted 16.7.1915, 13th Battalion, Reg No-3093, wounded in action - 22.6.1918 (GSW left thigh, severe), invalided to England 25.6.1918, RTA invalided 26.11.1918, died 28.8.1961, Windale, N.S.W., age 71, ashes interred Newcastle Memorial Park, N.S.W., not officially commemorated).
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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