PRITCHARD, Thomas Griffith
| Service Numbers: | 16055, 16055 , N67978 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 October 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2 Garrison Battalion (NSW) |
| Born: | Minmi, New South Wales, Australia, 16 September 1887 |
| Home Town: | Kurri Kurri, Cessnock, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Sanitary carter |
| Died: | Victoria Street, Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, 8 September 1960, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Minmi Cemetery, New South Wales Left Hand Side, Section 12, Plot 046. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Oct 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 16055, 1st Divisional Train | |
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| 30 Apr 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 16055 , Reinforcements WW1, HMAT Port Darwin |
World War 2 Service
| 24 Sep 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N67978, 2 Garrison Battalion (NSW) | |
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| 29 Jul 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N67978, 2 Garrison Battalion (NSW) |
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From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Minmi Cemetery.
On the 10th September 1960, Driver Thomas Griffith Pritchard, 1st Australian Divisional Train, Australian Army Service Corps (Reg No-16055), sanitary carter from Victoria Street, Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Minmi Cemetery, age 72. Left Hand Side, Section 12, Plot 046.
PRITCHARD, Thomas Griffith, funeral notice 10th SEP 1960, late of Charlestown and Minmi, Newcastle Herald, 10th SEP 1960.
Born at Minmi, New South Wales on the 16th September 1887 to Griffith, died 30.9.1926, Wallsend Hospital, N.S.W., age 71, buried at Right Hand Side, Section 17, Plot 023, from Maitland Road, Minmi, New South Wales (1917) and Wallsend Road, Minmi, N.S.W., and Louisa Mathilda (Matilda) Pritchard nee Perry, died 24.3.1908, Minmi, N.S.W., age 40, mother of 4 sons, sleeping at Right Hand Side, Section 17, Plot 023; husband of Sarah Jane Pritchard nee Evans, married 1908, Minmi, N.S.W., died 2.2.1959, Wallsend or Minmi, N.S.W., age 68, mother of 6?, sleeping at Left Hand Side, Section 12, Plot 046, from Maitland Road, Minmi, New South Wales (1917), Tom enlisted on the 18th October 1917 with the Australian Army Service Corps, age 30 years 1 month, at Kurri Kurri, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board SS Port Darwin on the 30th April 1918.
Disembarked Suez, Egypt 7.6.1918.
Disembarked Southampton, England 16.7.1918.
Taken on Strength 1st Australian Divisional Train 3.2.1919.
Commenced return to Australia 18.7.1919.
Tom arrived home on the 7th September 1919, being discharged on the 1st October 1919.
Did not serve in a theatre of war, therefore was not granted Victory Medal.
Not listed on the AIF Project.
Mr. Pritchard’s name has been inscribed on the Minmi Roll of Honour and the Minmi St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour. Name not inscribed on the Kurri Kurri War Memorial.
Officially commemorated - https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html....
Younger brother George Pritchard, born 6.1.1896, Minmi, New South Wales, single wheeler from Cornish Row, Minmi, New South Wales, enlisted 31.12.1915, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 19 years 11 months, 35th Battalion, Reg No-1218, unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A24 Benalla on the 1st May 1916, wounded in action - 1.4.1918 (GSW right arm), RTA 28.6.1919, died 23.6.1962, Minmi, N.S.W., age 66, ashes interred Newcastle Memorial Park, N.S.W., not officially commemorated.
Many thanks to Jeanette Park and Ros Cheetham for the notification.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
Lest We Forget.
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