WARREN, Thomas Searle
| Service Number: | 3562 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 July 1917, Enlisted in Tasmania |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 40th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Youngtown, Tasmania, Australia, July 1892 |
| Home Town: | Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Wellington Square State School, Tasmania, Australia |
| Occupation: | Benchman |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Villers-Brettoneux, France, 15 June 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Adelaide Cemetery Villers-Bretonneux, France Adelaide Cemetery (Plot I, Row A, Grave 7), Villers-Bretonneux, France, Adelaide Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Launceston Cenotaph |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Jul 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3562, Enlisted in Tasmania | |
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| 30 Oct 1917: | Involvement Private, 3562, 40th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Oct 1917: | Embarked Private, 3562, 40th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From François Berthout
Today, the sun rises peacefully on the Somme and I would like to enlighten the memory of one of my boys, today I want to pay a very respectful tribute to Private number 3562 Thomas Searle Warren who fought in the 40th Australian Infantry Battalion and who was killed in action 102 years ago, on June 15, 1918 at the age of 26.
Thomas Searle Warren was born in 1892 in Youngtown, Tasmania and was the son of Charles William and Annie Warren and lived at 35, Charles Street, Launceston, Tasmania. Thomas was educated at Wellington Square State School, Tasmania and before the war, he worked as a benchman.
Enlisted on July 14, 1917 in Tasmania in the 40th Australian infantry battalion, 9th Reinforcement, he embarked with his unit from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A60 Aeneas on October 30, 1917 for England where he was disembarked on December 27, 1917 and received his training at Sutton Mendeville, Wiltshire, England then he embarked with his battaillon from Southampton, England, for France on April 7, 1918 and was disembarked the next day at Rouelles before joining the battlefields of northern France in the Somme.
unfortunately,two month later, while his battaillon was in the trenches of Villers-Bretonneux, Thomas was a member of a ration party and was killed in a street of Villers-Bretonneux by a shell splinter which he received in the head.
Today, Thomas Searle Warren rests in peace with his comrades, friends and brothers in arms at the Adelaide Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, under the peaceful sky of the Somme.
it is with gratitude in my heart that I wish to say to you, Thomas, Sir, that I thank you for all that you have done here for us, you who came from so far to fight here, under the gaze full of tenderness and of admiration of the French people who saw you arriving to help us, who put in you all their hopes of freedom, you fought bravely for your country, for the Somme, for France for whom you have done so much through devastated battlefields, fields of mud, fields of fury, in a world which was in agony, you gave in the hearts of all people the hopes of a better world, in 1918 you put hope in the eyes of the people of the Somme and today we place our benevolent gaze on you, a benevolent and grateful gaze and I have in my heart a deep admiration, a deep love for you, for your brothers in arms who fought and who fell here but also a deep love for your country, australia with whom we are proud to be friends, with whom i am proud to share your story and the story of all those who wrote history in gold letters and who fought alongside the french soldiers.We will always have a deep gratitude for you Sir and we will always honor your memory with the utmost respect.We will never forget you.At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember him, we will remember them.🌺
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