KINNEARD, Thomas William
| Service Number: | 476 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 January 1916, 14th infantry |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 34th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Wickham, New South Wales, Australia, 9 April 1897 |
| Home Town: | Abermain, Cessnock, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Wheeler |
| Died: | Hit by shell, Belgium, 13 October 1917, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 23 Belgium, Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Abermain War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Cessnock Abermain Comforts Fund Pictorial Honour Roll, Cessnock Abermain Public School HR, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 476, 34th Infantry Battalion, 14th infantry | |
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| 2 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 476, 34th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: Surname is incorrectly spelt as Kinneaird on original record | |
| 2 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 476, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Fell during The Great War, memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery, not forgotten.
105 years ago today, on the 13th October 1917, Private Thomas William Kinneard, 34th Battalion (Reg No-476), carter from Grafton Street, Abermain, New South Wales, was Killed in Action by an artillery shell at the 1st Battle of Passchendaele, Passchendaele Campaign, age 20.
Born at Wickham, New South Wales on the 9th April 1897 as John William Echford to mother Jessie, father unknown; foster son of Thomas Matthew (died 1.6.1955, Hamilton, N.S.W.) and foster mother Sarah Ann Kinneard (died 28.5.1926 as KINNIARD of New Lambton Road, New Lambton, N.S.W.), Thomas enlisted January 1916 at West Maitland, N.S.W.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133747731 - report of letter home to parents, as KINNEAIRD.
Admitted to hospital 17.2.1917 (accidental sprained left wrist).
Thomas’s name has been inscribed on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium.
Mr. Kinneard’s name has also been inscribed on the Abermain War Memorial (as KINNEARD), Abermain Public School Honor Roll (as KINNARD, photo, unveiled on the 31st March 1917, 54 names inscribed, only 2 names designated as Fallen, located at Goulburn Street, Abermain, N.S.W.) and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
Thomas has been memorialised at parent’s gravesite. ANGLICAN 2-118. 65.
Gravesite surname, KINNAIRD, Sandgate Cemetery database surname, KINNIARD.
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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