Thomas James VALLIS

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VALLIS, Thomas James

Service Number:	Officer
Enlisted:	5 May 1917, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	3rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Canterbury, England, 19 July 1885
Home Town:	Waverley, Waverley, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Soldier
Died:	Killed In Action, France, 11 August 1918, aged 33 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, , France
Memorials:	Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

5 May 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, Officer, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
28 Feb 1918:	Involvement Lieutenant, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: ''
28 Feb 1918:	Embarked Lieutenant, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Thomas James and Johanna Vallis of Canterbury, Kent, England.

Husband of Isabel Maude Vallis nee Wilson of 'Sialkot', Campbell Street, Waverley, NSW. Thomas and Isabel married during 1912c in Woollahra, NSW. Step-father of John Alan Wilson and Brian Wilson.

Previously served with the 12th Royal Lancers for twelve years as Instructional Staff.

Eye witnesses said that Thomas was sitting in a trench when an artillery exploded there burying him. Later it could not be located.

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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