THOMAS, Edgar John
| Service Number: | 1085 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 May 1915, 4 years 4th Welsh Regiment |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 20th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales, September 1889 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia, 14 August 1943, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 4-15. 68. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 19 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1085, 20th Infantry Battalion, 4 years 4th Welsh Regiment | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 1085, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 1085, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Sydney | |
| 19 Apr 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1085, 20th Infantry Battalion, 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.
81 years ago today, on the 16th August 1943, Private Edgar John Thomas, 20th Battalion (Reg No-1085), miner (Richmond Main Colliery), from 32 Robert Street, Linwood, Newcastle, New South Wales and Turnbull Street, Hamilton, N.S.W., father of one, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 53. METHODIST 4-15. 68.
No funeral notice.
Born at Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales about September 1889 to William and Elizabeth Anne Thomas; husband of Ethel Thomas nee O'Toole, married 1919, Kurri Kurri, N.S.W., died 1981?, 1982?, Sydney, N.S.W., from 32 Pichard Street, Five Dock, N.S.W. (1967), Edgar enlisted on the 19th May 1915 at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board Transport Berrima on the 25th June 1915.
Admitted to hospital 27.3.1916 (influenza), 23.3.1918 (scabies).
Wounded in action - 14.5.1918 (GSW left shoulder & chest, mild).
Transferred to England 27.5.1918.
Commenced return to Australia 10.12.1918.
Edgar arrived home on the 15th February 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 19th April 1919.
Mr. Thomas’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
Headstone plaque almost unreadable.
I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at Edgar’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
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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