HILL, Edward Thomas
| Service Number: | 2182 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 March 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Willunga, South Australia, 26 May 1888 |
| Home Town: | Willunga, Onkaparinga, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Willunga Primary School, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | East Coolgardie, Western Australia , 1960, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 28 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2182, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
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| 9 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 2182, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Miltiades embarkation_ship_number: A28 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 2182, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Miltiades, Fremantle | |
| 10 Jun 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2182, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Peter Cates
Tom Hill was a grandson of pioneer Edward Loud, who discovered slate on his property near Willunga, SA in 1840, beginning an importatnt new industry. At the time of Tom's enlistment at Blackboy Hill, Perth, he had been farming in Albany. Aged 27 and unmarried, when he went to war Tom was 5' 9" (175cm) tall and weighed 162lds (73Kg). He had a tanned complexion, brown eyes and dark hair. After suffering gunshot wounds tohis face on 10 Fune 1918, Tom was sent to hospital in England. He was demobilised on 29 March 1919 and married Florence Edith May Thomson in 1920. When he died in 1960, aged 72 he was living in East Coolgardie WA.
Exerpts from book, "Picture of Fortitude", with approval by the Willunga Recreation Park.
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