Thomas George (Tom) SHADDOCK

SHADDOCK, Thomas George

    Service Number: 2632
    Enlisted: 1 August 1917, Moonee Ponds, Vic.
    Last Rank: Gunner
    Last Unit: 11th Field Artillery Brigade
    Born: Windsor, Victoria, Australia, 9 October 1896
    Home Town: Ascot Vale, Melbourne, Victoria
    Schooling: Ascot Vale State School, Victoria, Australia
    Occupation: Jockey
    Died: Natural Causes, Cheshire England , 1988
    Cemetery: Not yet discovered
    Memorials: Nathalia Wakiti Honor Roll, Warrnambool Agricultural High School Honor Roll
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    World War 1 Service

    1 Aug 1917: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2632, 13th Light Horse Regiment, Moonee Ponds, Vic.
    2 Feb 1918: Involvement Private, 2632, 13th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: ''
    2 Feb 1918: Embarked Private, 2632, 13th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney
    20 Apr 1918: Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, Artillery Details , Transferred to Artillery Details Heytsbury from Light Horse Reinforcement’s Australia Remustered Gunner from Trooper
    28 Sep 1918: Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 11th Field Artillery Brigade , Taken on Strength of 41st Battery RAA in the field France from Australian Corps Depot France
    29 Sep 1918: Wounded AIF WW1, Gunner, 2632, 11th Field Artillery Brigade , "The Last Hundred Days", Wounded in Action France Shell wound Face and jaw Evacuated to England for treatment and convalescence
    16 Jan 1919: Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 11th Field Artillery Brigade , Posted to 2nd Command Depot Weymouth on continued Convalescence
    28 Apr 1919: Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 11th Field Artillery Brigade , Declared illegal absentee from AIF HQ UK
    1 Apr 2020: Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 2632, 11th Field Artillery Brigade , Declared Deserter from the AIF with effect 28 April 1919 to 1 April 1920 Discharged and forfeit of medals and gratuity

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    Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

    Married Annie Dorothy ANNAL, spinster, aged 29, The Independent Chapel, 23 January 1919.

    Court of Enquiry, 4 May 1919, declared him to be an illegal absentee from 12 April 1919 and he was discharged from the AIF, 1 April 1920, in consequence of desertion.  He remained in the United Kingdom for the rest of his life; died Birkenhead, Cheshire.

     

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