WILLIAMS, Thomas Peter
| Service Numbers: | 7097, 3488 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 November 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 14th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Dunkeld, Victoria, Australia, 1 October 1897 |
| Home Town: | Dunkeld, Southern Grampians, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in action, France, 18 April 1918, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No.1 Plot VI, Row C, Grave No. 55. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Nov 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7097, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 22 Dec 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 7097, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
| 16 Jul 1917: | Involvement Private, 3488, 59th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Melbourne embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Jul 1917: | Embarked Private, 3488, 59th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Melbourne, Sydney | |
| 18 Apr 1918: | Involvement Private, 3488, 14th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3488 awm_unit: 14 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-04-18 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Thomas Peter Williams was the youngest of four Australian brothers from Dunkeld, Victoria who all died on service during WW1.
His older brother, 510 Pte. John Edward Williams 15th Battalion was an original Anzac and had been killed at Gallipoli on 8 August 1915, aged 24.
His brother, 2836B Pte. Frank Williams, 10th Battalion AIF, was killed in action at Pozieres on 23 July 1916, aged 23.
Another brother, 358 Stoker Michael Wright Williams, Royal Australian Navy, a stoker on the sunken Australian submarine AE2, died as a prisoner of war in Turkey on 23 September 1916.
Thomas Williams actually enlisted at Claremont in Tasmania during late 1916. He left Australia a few days before Christmas 1916 with the 12th Battalion AIF. He was returned to Sydney, Australia, before he reached the Western Front, from Capetown, South Africa, on the 9 March 1917 for unknown reasons, possibly disciplinary. He re-enlisted in the 59th Battalion shortly after. He left Australia again during July 1917.
He had quite a few run ins with military discipline in England before he eventually joined the 14th Battalion in France on the 17 April 1918. He was mortally wounded in the head the very next day.
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