Thomas Henry GREER

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GREER, Thomas Henry

Service Number:	197
Enlisted:	14 July 1915, A Coy
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	31st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 17 December 1897
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Petrie Terrace Boys State School, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Occupation:	Storeman
Died:	Workplace Accident, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 3 November 1920, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Toowong (Brisbane General) Cemetery, Queensland
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World War 1 Service

14 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 197, 31st Infantry Battalion, A Coy
9 Nov 1915:	Involvement Private, 197, 31st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: ''
9 Nov 1915:	Embarked Private, 197, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne
30 Mar 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 197, 31st Infantry Battalion, ex Suez per Argyllshire
8 May 1916:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 197, 31st Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Thomas was the sixth of seven children of Robert Alexander Greer (born 1863 in Brisbane, QLD) and Mary Devereux (born 1866 in Ireland). Robert was a Labourer in Brisbane, QLD when he and Mary married in 1885. They raised their family in Brisbane.

Thomas was a Carter in Brisbane, QLD when he enlisted in the AIF in 1916 (stating on his Attestation Form that he was almost 19 years of age) and served as a Private and Driver (Service No:197) with 31 Infantry Battalion A Coy. Hospitalised in Suez, he was found to have 'Dilation of the Heart' (Has always been a delicate youth, and is very short of wind. National Archives Australia). Thomas was Discharged in 1916 and returned to Brisbane where he married Madge Forsyth McGory (born 1896 in Brisbane, QLD) in 1917.

Thomas and Madge settled in Maryborough, QLD where Thomas was working as a Railway Porter when he died in 1920. Madge returned to Brisbane where she remarried and died in 1966.

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