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MELICAN, Thomas Pembroke
Personal Details
Service Number: | 485 |
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Enlisted: | 24 September 1914, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
Born: | Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 1886 |
Home Town: | Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Miner |
Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 27 April 1915 |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 55 No known grave, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
Service History
World War 1 Service
24 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 485, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA | |
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22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 485, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 485, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Thomas Pembroke MELICAN was born in 1886 in Ballarat, Victoria
His parents were John MELICAN and Catherine PEMBROKE who both came from Ireland and married in 1876 in Victoria
Next of kin was given as his sister Annie Martha Melican,
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal