Thomas Alexander POTTICARY

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POTTICARY, Thomas Alexander

Service Number:	726
Enlisted:	21 February 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	43rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Port Wakefield, 24 May 1894
Home Town:	Port Wakefield, Wakefield, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 31 July 1917, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Port Wakefield Memorial Arch, Port Wakefield St Vincent de Paul's Catholic Church Memorial Stained Glass Window

World War 1 Service

21 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 726, 43rd Infantry Battalion
9 Jun 1916:	Involvement Private, 726, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: ''
9 Jun 1916:	Embarked Private, 726, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Adelaide

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of John and Ellen POTTICARY, Port Wakefield, South Australia

THE LATE PRIVATE POTTICARY.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Potticary, of Port Wakefield, have been officially notified that their third son, Private T. A. Potticary, of the 43rd Battalion, M.G. section, was killed in action in France on July 31, 1917. He enlisted in February, 1916, and sailed on June 9, 1916. After spending some months on Salisbury Plain he was transferred to France. He went into action on December 29. Prior to enlisting he was farming at St. Inkerman with his brother. He was born at Port Wakefield and was 23 years of age. He had a kind and manly disposition and was respected by all who knew him.

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