GRIEVES, Thomas Arthur
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 29 May 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | 8th Field Ambulance |
| Born: | 29 January 1865, place not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Stockton, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Medical practitioner |
| Died: | Hamilton South, New South Wales, Australia, 12 August 1938, aged 73 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 2-127. I. |
| Memorials: | St Paul's Church Stockton HR, Stockton Soldiers Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 29 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Captain, 1st Australian General Hospital | |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Jun 1915: | Involvement Captain, Medical Officers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Karoola embarkation_ship_number: A63 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Jun 1915: | Embarked Captain, Medical Officers, HMAT Karoola, Sydney | |
| 30 Nov 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Captain, 8th Field Ambulance, 8th Light Horse Field Ambulance. Medically unfit. | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Captain, 1st Australian General Hospital, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: '' embarkation_ship: '' embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| Date unknown: | Embarked Captain, 1st Australian General Hospital |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
82 years ago today, on the Sunday afternoon of the 14th August 1938 (4 funerals on this day), Captain Thomas Arthur Grieves, Australian Army Medical Corps (8th Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance), medical practioner from Stockton, New South Wales and 11 Silsoe Street, Hamilton South, N.S.W., father of five, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 73. ANGLICAN 2-127. I.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133151932
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133152025 - funeral notice does not state service.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article114793620
Born at? on the 29th January 1865 to Thomas and Mary Grieves; husband of Annie Susannah Cox Grieves nee Birch (married 1891, Waverley, N.S.W., died 1956), Thomas enlisted May 1915 as a medical officer at Sydney, N.S.W.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138224206
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137211170
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137094430
Admitted to hospital 18.5.1916 (heat exhaustion), 2.6.1916 (neurasthenia), Mr Grieves returned home August 1916, being discharged medically unfit on the 5th November 1916.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133890412
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133761026
Thomas’s name has been inscribed on the Stockton Soldiers' Memorial (photos, unveiled on the 25th April 1922), Stockton St. Paul's Anglican Church Honour Roll and the Stockton Masonic Lodge Peninsula (No. 221) Honour Roll. Tent surgeon to the Stockton Rechabites Lodge.
Mr Grieves’s headstone inscription gives no indication that he served as a Captain with the 1st A.I.F., so I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label, kindly supplied by Andrea Gerrard and John Thomas, to honour his sacrifice for God, King and Country.
http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/index.php/war-heroes/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103&aso=exact&s_f=id&data_search=22474#2
His sons Oswald Percy Neild (Reg No-7747, 3rd Australian Field Ambulance, born Wyalong, New South Wales?, died 1972, Newcastle, N.S.W.) and Kenneth Arthur (Reg No-29384, 7th Australian Field Artillery Brigade, born Wyalong, New South Wales?, died 1970, Bowral, N.S.W.) also served 1st A.I.F.
Lest We Forget.
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