WILCOX, Thomas Johnson
| Service Number: | 243 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Teralba New South Wales, Australia, 27 January 1888 |
| Home Town: | Teralba, Lake Macquarie Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Shop assistant |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Messines, Belgium, France, 7 June 1917, aged 29 years |
| Cemetery: |
Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck, Nord Pas de Calais Plot I, Row Q, Grave 16 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Teralba Public School Boys HR, Teralba War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 243, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 243, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 243, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 7th June 1917, Private Thomas Johnson Wilcox, referred to as Nugget or Nug or Jim, 35th Battalion (Reg No-243), shop assistant (T. C. Frith), Died of Wounds at the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station (GSW head & forearm, compound fracture of the skull), Battle of Messines, age 29.
No Roll of Honour circular summited.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Teralba, New South Wales on the 27th February 1888 to William H (died 1902?) and Elizabeth Wilcox (died 27.9.1924, Wallsend, N.S.W., age 65 - no funeral notice located) of Boolaroo Road, Teralba, Nugget enlisted on the 17th January 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A24 Benalla on the 1st May 1916.
Nugget was laid to rest on the 12th June 1917 at the Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck, France. Plot I Row Q Grave 16.
Place of Association - Teralba, New South Wales, Australia.
Mr. Wilcox’s name has been inscribed on the Teralba Soldiers' Memorial, Teralba Public School Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
Name not inscribed on the 35th Battalion Memorial Cross.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised gravesite of Mrs. Elizabeth Wilcox in remembrance of the service and supreme sacrifice of her son for God, King & Country.
Many thanks to Robert Richards who notified me December 2022 that the gravesite had been restored.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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