Thomas Julian O'BRIEN

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Service Number:	21390
Enlisted:	8 January 1916, Enlisted at Rockhampton, QLD
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	1st Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 9 September 1894
Home Town:	Capella, Central Highlands, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Storekeeper
Died:	Queensland, Australia, 17 August 1941, aged 46 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Clermont Cemetery, Queensland Row Q. Commemorated with a plaque in the QLD Garden of Remembrance. Wall 5, Row Q
Memorials:

8 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 21390, 9th Field Artillery Brigade , Enlisted at Rockhampton, QLD
11 May 1916:	Involvement Gunner, 21390, 9th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: ''
11 May 1916:	Embarked Gunner, 21390, 9th Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney
24 Aug 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, From 9th Field Artillery Brigade
12 Oct 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Gunner, 21390, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, Wounds to the chest and arm. Embarked for England 18 October 1917 aboard HS Pieter de Conick
10 Jul 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 21390, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, Discharged at the 1st Military District as medically unfit

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Son of Thomas O'Brien and Catherine O'Brien nee Raleigh of Capella, QLD.

Commenced return to Australia on 21 April 1918 aboard HT Suevic disembarking on 7 June 1918 at Melbourne for onward travel to Brisbane

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1926c Thomas married Marion Ann Smith in QLD