LAKE, Thomas James
| Service Number: | 3372 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 13th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Orange, New South Wales, Australia, 5 November 1894 |
| Home Town: | Old Junee, Junee, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 14 August 1916, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 13 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 3372, 4th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: '' | |
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| 13 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 3372, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Lincoln, Sydney | |
| 14 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 3372, 13th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3372 awm_unit: 13 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-08-14 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Thomas James LAKE (Serial Number 3372) was born at Orange on 5th November 1894. His widowed mother lived at Old Junee.
In July 1910 he joined the NSW Government Railways as a probationer in the Junee District and was stationed at Coolamon. He was promoted to junior porter in January 1911 and became a junior clerk in the District Office at Junee in March 1915. In August 1915 he was granted leave to enlist in the AIF at Warwick Farm.
He was sent first to Egypt. In February 1916 he was ‘taken on strength’ by the 53rd Battalion at Tel-el-Kebir. He had two days in hospital with tonsillitis.
In mid-March was transferred to the 13th Battalion, with which in June 1916 he proceeded to France.
He was killed in action on 14th August 1916. He has no known place of burial and is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
His younger brother, Sgt Halbert Leslie Lake, had enlisted in 1915 and was captured, wounded, in 1917. He died shortly after repatriation from Germany to England in 1918.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.