HARVEY, Thomas
| Service Number: | 4362 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 27 September 1915, Enlisted at Holdsworthy (now Holsworthy). |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Newlyn, Cornwall, United Kingdom, 1890 |
| Home Town: | Waverley, Waverley, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Draper and also a Porter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 4 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 7 Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4362, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Holdsworthy (now Holsworthy). | |
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| 30 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 4362, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 4362, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Sydney | |
| 4 Oct 1917: | Involvement Private, 4362, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4362 awm_unit: 2 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-04 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
His sister, Winifred married William Parkin who was born in Penzance, Cornwall, England and who fell in Flanders 26 July 1916, aged 30 whilst serving with the 19th Battalion, Australian Infantry, A.I.F. Winifred and William lived at 61, Henrietta St., Waverley, New South Wales.
Thomas was 27 and the son of Abednego and Jane Harvey,(nee CARTER) also of 61, Henrietta St., Waverley, New South Wales, formerly Fore Street, Newlyn, Cornwall, England.
Emigrated aged 22 years.
Religious denomination Methodist.
Enlisted 11 September 1915.
In the United Kingdom he is commemorated on the Newlyn War Memorial, on the Madron War Memorial, on the Australian Memorial in London, and on his parents’ grave in Paul (Sheffield Road) Cemetery [it appears they returned from Australia to live in Cornwall]
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Thomas Harvey (Service Number 4362) was born at Newlyn, Cornwall, England about April 1890. He worked as a porter for the Traffic Branch of the NSW Railways. He enlisted at Holdsworthy on 27th September 1915. He was single and gave his mother as his next of kin.
He left Australia from Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Aeneas’ on 30th December 1915 and reached Egypt in mid-February 1916. He joined the 2nd Australian Infantry Battalion at Tel-el-Kebir. In March he embarked at Alexandria for France and the Western Front, passing through Marseilles late in that same month. He was wounded in action, with gunshot injuries to his scalp and right side on the night of 22nd/23rd July 1916 and evacuated to England.
It was November 1916 before he was discharged from hospital and February 1917 before he was fit to return to front line service. In May he was hospitalised again with an ulcer on his upper right arm. After several months away from the trenches at hospitals and convalescent depots he re-joined the Battalion on 25th September.
He was killed in action on 4 October 1917 in Belgium. He was buried at Map reference Sheet No. 28 N.E. Square J4B7.4. After the war this detail was not sufficient to locate the grave and so Harvey has no known grave and is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial.
- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
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