ADDIS-BLACK, Thomas Charles
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | 16 March 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train |
| Born: | South Yarra, Victoria, Australia, 2 February 1888 |
| Home Town: | South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Conway Training ship - England |
| Occupation: | Officer in Merchant Service |
| Died: | Malaria & acute heart failure, At Sea , 7 April 1916, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Buried at sea |
| Memorials: | Chatby Memorial, Alexandria, Egypt |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Mar 1916: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Lieutenant, Officer, 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train | |
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| 29 Mar 1916: | Involvement Lieutenant, 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '24' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 29 Mar 1916: | Embarked Lieutenant, 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train, RMS Orontes, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He is one of 12 Casualties who served with Australian forces in the Great War remembered on the Rothesay War Memorial. The Royal Burgh of Rothesay (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Bhòid) is the principal town on the Isle of Bute, in the council area of Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Rothesay lies along the coast of the Firth of Clyde.
Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Thomas Charles ADDIS-BLACK was born in South Yarra, Victoria on 2nd February, 1888
His parents were Archibald Syme BLACK & Henrietta Thorburn ADDIS who married in Victoria on 18th June 1885
He married Beatrice Annie PURVES on 29th April, 1913 in St Johns Presbyterian Church in Kensington, London - after his death in 1916 she remarried to a Warren MEADE in England in 1918
Thomas died on board the RMS Orontes off the coast of Western Australia, en route to Egypt on 7th April, 1916 and was buried at sea
His name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial & the Chatby Memorial in Egypt
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His father Archibald Syme BLACK (SN 338) served during the Boer War with the 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
His brother Walter Ian BLACK (SN 444) served during WW1 in the AN&MEF Tropical Unit, E Company & also enlisted to serve during WW2 (SN NX115431) & (N76138) in the Provost Corps and was discharged on 10th December, 1946
His son Hamish Archibald Addis BLACK (SN 7687025) also served in the Provost Unit in England and died on 17th June 1940 in Dunkirk.
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