Thomas Crawford NEVILLE

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NEVILLE, Thomas Crawford

Service Numbers:	T102023, TX12186
Enlisted:	23 September 1942
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/4th Field Squadron
Born:	Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia, 21 September 1908
Home Town:	Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Carpenter
Died:	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 22 October 1987, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Winkleigh General Cemetery, Tasmania The Launceston Garden of Remembrance
Memorials:	Tasmania (Launceston) Garden of Remembrance

World War 2 Service

23 Sep 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, T102023
29 Oct 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, T102023
30 Oct 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, TX12186
10 Jun 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, TX12186, 2nd/4th Field Squadron, embarked Brisbane for Morotai on board SS Both
30 Jun 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, TX12186, 2nd/4th Field Squadron, embarked Morotai for Borneo on board Horace Linton
20 Nov 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, TX12186, 2nd/4th Field Squadron, embarked Balikapan for Sydney on board HMS Implacable
6 Dec 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, TX12186

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Corporal Thomas Crawford Neville (Service No:TX12186) initially served four years with the Militia (Cook/Sergeant with 12 Field Ambulance) and the ACMF (Private; Service No:T102023) before enlisting in the AIF on 30 October 1942 as a Private attached to 13 Infantry Training Battalion. Private Neville served with 12/50th Infantry Battalion and 19 Maintenance Platoon (Trade Group - Carpenter) and was promoted to Corporal on 2 March 1944. In October 1944 Corporal Neville was attached to 1 RAE Training Centre before embarking for service in Borneo (10 June 1945 - 20 November 1945). Corporal Neville was attached to 2/4 Field Squadron RAE at Discharge on 6 December 1945.

Born in Beaconsfield, Tasmania in 1908, Thomas was the eldest of five children of Thomas Neville Snr (b1876 in Westbury, Tasmania) and his first wife Elvina (Elvie) May Crawford (b1886 at Turners Marsh, Tasmania). Thomas Snr was a Blacksmith in 1907 when he and Elvie married in Beaconsfield, where they settled and raised their family and Thomas Snr was a Blacksmith. Following Elvie's death in 1917, Thomas Snr remarried and settled in Launceston where he worked as a Blacksmith.

Thomas was a Carpenter in Launceston in 1930 when he married Lina May Best Balmforth (b1911 in Sprent, Tasmania). Thomas and Lina settled in Launceston where they raised their family and Thomas was a Carpenter. Thomas died in 1987 and Lina in 2003.

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