BAXTER, Thomas
| Service Number: | 4253 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 October 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 31st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Rockford, Queensland, Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Charters Towers, Charters Towers, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Charters Towers State School, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Stockman |
| Died: | Pneumonia, Fovant Military Hospital, Wiltshire, England , United Kingdom, 8 March 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Baverstock (St. Edith) Churchyard INSCRIPTION AS THE IVY CLINGS TO THE OAK OUR MEMORY CLINGS TO THEE, Baverstock (St Edith) Churchyard, Baverstock, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Mount Pleasant Upper North Pine Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4253, 31st Infantry Battalion | |
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| 17 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 4253, 31st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 4253, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kyarra, Brisbane |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Deaths Mar 1917 Baxter Thomas 23 Wilton 5a 356.
He was 23 and the son of John and Alice Martha Thomasson [nee Poschalk] Baxter, [1869–1921] of Marion St., Charters Towers, Queensland.
Siblings
Joseph Henry Winfield Baxter
1884–1959 (m. 1911)
Alice Baxter Spillane 1896–1983
James Baxter 1898–1945
Ernest Augustus Poschalk 1902–1990
Herbert Norman Poschalk 1905–1983
Leslie Arthur Poschalk 1908–1993
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
The summary below was completed by Cathy Sedgwick – Facebook “WW1 Australian War Graves in England/UK/Scotland/Ireland
Died on this date – 8th March…… Private Thomas Baxter was born in Rochford, Queensland on 24th October, 1894. His father died on 28th November, 1897 in Queensland. His mother had remarried in 1901.
On 2nd October, 1916 Thomas Baxter enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) as a 23 year old, Stockman from Charters Towers, Queensland.
Private Thomas Baxter, Service number 4253, embarked from Brisbane on HMAT Kyarra (A55) on 17th November, 1916 with the 8th Infantry Brigade, 31st Infantry Battalion, 11th Reinforcements & disembarked at Plymouth, England on 30th January, 1917.
Reinforcements were only given basic training in Australia. Training was completed in training units in England. Some of these were located in the Salisbury Plain & surrounding areas in the county of Wiltshire.
On 24th February, 1917 he was admitted sick to Fovant Hospital from 8th Training Battalion at Hurdcott, Wiltshire.
Private Thomas Baxter died at 9.50 a.m. on 8th March, 1917 at Fovant Military Hospital, Wiltshire from pneumonia.
He was buried on 10th March, 1917 in the churchyard of St. Edith’s at Baverstock, Wiltshire where 28 other WW1 Australian War Graves are located.
(The above is a summary of my research. The full research can be found by following the link below)
https://ww1austburialsuk.weebly.com/baverstock.html
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