MOORE, Thomas Matthew
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 17th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Temora, New South Wales, Australia, 20 July 1893 |
| Home Town: | Gerringong, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Engine Cleaner |
| Died: | Pneumonia, Kiama, New South Wales, Australia, 12 August 1915, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
Kiama General Cemetery, New South Wales |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Private, 17th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Thomas Matthew MOORE was born in Temora on 20th July 1893. He joined the NSW Government Railways as a cleaner (first step on the career path of an engineman) at the Eveleigh locomotive depot in May 1914. In July 1914 he enlisted in the AIF at Liverpool.
He was allotted at the Liverpool camp to the 5th Reinforcements of the 17th Battalion. He never proceeded overseas.
He died in the Kiama Cottage Hospital on 12th August 1915 of pneumonia of nine days duration. He was on leave visiting his parents.
He is buried in the Kiama General Cemetery.
Despite the brevity of his service, his mother was granted a war pension by the authorities.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.