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Son of Mary S. Webb (formerly Bloxom), of Richmond, Victoria, Australia, and the late James Bloxom

Enlisted 29 March 1916 1st Battalion 3rd New Zealand Rifle Brigade

Private Thomas Bloxom, of the New Zealand  Expeditionary Forces, who died of wounds at the 13th  General Hospital in France on November 9, was the  son of old-time Richmond residents. His mother. Mrs. Webb, was one of the well-known Bell family, who for  many years carried on a large cabinet-making and  undertaker's business on the top of the hill in Lennox-street.
Private Bloxom left Victoria some years ago to accept  an engagement with a New Zealand Government survey party, and joined up in the Dominion with the  New Zealand Rifle Brigade. Early in the year he was  wounded, but recovering well, he returned to the firing line and in October was again wounded. The  cablegram which came through the New Zealand defence authorities stated: "Gunshot wound, chest,  dangerously ill." In a letter received from him last mail  he said "The Australian troops are in a very  warm place, and the New Zealanders are about to link  up with them." They were then he said, in great heart  at the prospect of being together. His only brother is in France with the Australian Mechanical and Engineering Corps, a Victorian company. Two step-brothers are also on active service, and at latest date were all well. His sister, Miss Annie Bloxom, lives at Elm-grove, Richmond. His father died some years ago, and his  mother, who is again married, is engaged in farming  pursuits at Hill End, Gippsland.