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PALMER, Thomas
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 3861 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Derby, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, 10 August 1890 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, 1971, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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Service History
World War 1 Service
| 25 May 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 3861, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
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| 25 May 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 3861, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 25 May 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 3861, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Melbourne | |
| 25 May 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 3861, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Melbourne |
Personal Stories
Thomas Overton Hunt aka Thomas Palmer
Thomas Overton Hunt was born in 1891 Derby, Derbyshire to Thomas Overton and Mary Rowley.
Thomas joined the British Royal Navy in August 1908 serving on a number of ships. the last ship he was enlisted on was HMS Drake, when they docked at Sydney Australia 30th November 1911 Thomas decided to do a runner.
Notices were put out in Australian newspapers but he managed to stay unnoticed there for the rest of his life living under the name of Thomas Palmer until his death in 1972.
Submitted 10 December 2018 by Peter Overton
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