LINTER, Thomas Alfred
| Service Number: | 2088 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 August 1915, 4 years 2M2 Insignia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, March 1892 |
| Home Town: | Hornsby, Hornsby Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Boilermaker |
| Died: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 9 January 1955, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW BAPTIST-J NE. 36. |
| Memorials: | Stockton Morison & Bearby Ltd. Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2088, 30th Infantry Battalion, 4 years 2M2 Insignia | |
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| 16 Feb 1916: | Involvement Private, 2088, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Feb 1916: | Embarked Private, 2088, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Sydney | |
| 9 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2088, 1st Machine Gun Company, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
69 years ago today, on the 11th January 1955, Private Thomas Alfred Linter, 1st Australian Machine Gun Battalion (Reg No-2088), boilermaker from Club House Hotel, Newcastle, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 62. BAPTIST-J NE. 36.
Born at Rockhampton, Queensland about March 1892 to Charles Hubert and Anastasia Linter of Yippoon, Queensland; husband of Emma May Linter nee Dibben (married at The Register Office, St. Pancras, London, 22.2.1919, died 28.6.1968, Hamilton, N.S.W., age 73, sleeping here), Tom enlisted on the 19th August 1915 with the 30th Battalion at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A70 Ballarat on the 16th February 1916.
Admitted to hospital 21.7.1916 (sprained ankle), 7.11.1916 (laryngitis), 22.12.1916 (mumps), 18.9.1918 (influenza).
Granted leave to England 16.8.1917 to 31.8.1917.
Wounded in action - 20.9.1917 (SW right arm, SW or GSW head).
Granted leave to England and France from 21.1.1919 to 6.2.1919.
Commenced return to Australia 12.7.1919.
Tom arrived home on the 9th September 1919 with wife Emma & one child, being discharged on the 1st November 1919.
Newcastle boilermakers at the Newcastle Trades Hall.
Mr. Linter’s name has been inscribed on the Morison & Bearby Limited Roll of Honour, Newcastle Federated Society of Boilermakers Roll of Honour, Newcastle Federated Society of Boilermakers & Iron Shipbuilders Honour Roll and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Tom’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states Died after Discharge, 9/1/1955.
Officially commemorated 21.4.1955– https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html...
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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