MCWILLIAMS, Thomas
| Service Number: | 2110 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 36th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lambton, Newcastle New South Wales, Australia, December 1873 |
| Home Town: | Killingworth, Lake Macquarie Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Natural Causes, Swansea, New South Wales, Australia, 24 September 1954 |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 1-10. 8. |
| Memorials: | Killingworth War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2110, 36th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 24 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 2110, 36th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 2110, 36th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Sydney | |
| 31 Dec 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2110, 36th Infantry Battalion, Medically unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
66 years ago today, on the 25th September 1954, Private Thomas McWilliams, 13th Battalion (Reg No-2110), miner from Killingworth, New South Wales and Hamilton, N.S.W. and Swansea, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 84. CATHOLIC 1-10. 8.
Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 5th March 1870 to James and Hannah Ellen McWilliams, Thomas enlisted January 1916 with the 36th Battalion at West Wallsend, N.S.W.
Thomas returned home December 1917, being discharged medically unfit on the 6th February 1918.
Mr McWilliams’s name has been inscribed on the Killingworth Soldiers' Memorial (photos, unveiled on the 1st July 1922, 88 names inscribed, 20 fell). Name would possibly be inscribed on the Killingworth Union Church Roll of Honour (unveiled on the 6th January 1916, whereabouts unknown
Thomas’s headstone plaque gives us no indication that he served during The Great War, so I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label, kindly supplied by Andrea Gerrard and John Thomas, in remembrance of his duty for God, King and Country.
Younger brother William (20th Battalion, Reg No-946, born 1891, KIA 26.8.1916 memorialised in the same location.
Many thanks to Barry Copas for the portrait photos and family history.
Lest We Forget.
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