Thomas Henry LAURIE

LAURIE, Thomas Henry

    Service Number: 330
    Enlisted: 27 April 1916
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 1st Machine Gun Battalion
    Born: Copeland, Gloucester Shire, New South Wales, Australia , 11 December 1897
    Home Town: Gloucester, Gloucester Shire, New South Wales
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Motor Driver
    Died: Accidentally killed - aeroplane crash, Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia, 11 June 1921, aged 23 years
    Cemetery: Gloucester General Cemetery, New South Wales, Australia
    New South Wales, Australia GPS Coordinates Latitude: -32.02617 Longitude: 151.96431 Presbyterian Plot
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    World War 1 Service

    27 Apr 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 330, 1st Machine Gun Company
    16 Aug 1916: Involvement Private, 330, 1st Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
    16 Aug 1916: Embarked Private, 330, 1st Machine Gun Company, RMS Orontes, Melbourne
    4 Oct 1917: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 330, 1st Machine Gun Company, Broodseinde Ridge, Shrapnel wound right knee
    3 May 1919: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 330, 1st Machine Gun Battalion , HT Leicestershire, England for return to Australia - arriving 22 June 1919
    6 Aug 1919: Discharged Australian Army (Post WW2), 330

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    Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

    He was the son of Joseph N. & Emily Alice Laurie of Stobo, Rawdon Vale,; great grandson of the Patriarch, Joseph Laurie of Stobo, Scotland.

    He features in the book of remembrance for Tweeddale. [Roll of honour of Peebleshire men killed or served in the Great War, 1914-1918. With portraits.]

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