Thomas Hudson NESBITT MID

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Service Number:	26
Enlisted:	17 August 1914, Enlisted at South Melbourne
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	5th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Sunderland, England, United Kingdom, 1881
Home Town:	Essendon, Moonee Valley, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Master Mariner
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 26 April 1915
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave Panel 24, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing

17 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 26, Enlisted at South Melbourne
21 Oct 1914:	Involvement Corporal, 26, 5th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orvieto embarkation_ship_number: A3 public_note: ''
21 Oct 1914:	Embarked Corporal, 26, 5th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Orvieto, Melbourne
22 Dec 1914:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant
25 Apr 1915:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Awarded and promulgated in the London Gazette, Supplement, No. 29354 on 5 November 1915; Commonwealth Gazette, No. 12 on 27 January 1916.
26 Apr 1915:	Involvement Sergeant, 26, 5th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 26 awm_unit: 5 Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1915-04-26

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Address at the time of enlistment was 'Tintildia', Ardcoh Street, Essendon, Victoria

Son of George Richardson Nesbitt of 20 Exeter Street, Pallion, Sunderland, England and stepson of Georgina Nesbitt

Next of kin given as B.S.W. Gilbertson of St Kilda, Victoria

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Served with the Legion of Frontiersmen

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