FANNING, John Thomas
| Service Number: | 17820 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Bulla, Victoria, Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Bulla, Hume, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, 17 May 1957, cause of death not yet discovered, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Bulla Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: | Bulla War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 10 May 1917: | Involvement Driver, 17820, Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Marathon embarkation_ship_number: A74 public_note: '' | |
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| 10 May 1917: | Embarked Driver, 17820, Field Company Engineers, HMAT Marathon, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by James Weston
John Thomas Fanning was a 38 year old farmer and single when he enlisted in Sydney on the 30th October, 1916. His address was given as Bulla, Victoria and his next of kin, his mother Ellen Fanning, of the same address. His unit was called The March 1917 Reinforcements and embarked from Sydney on the “Marathon” on May 10, 1917. John Thomas was a driver. He returned to Australia on the 23rd of March, 1919.
After the war he returned and married Annie Tapscott and had two children. One of these, Frederick, was the famous Melbourne footballer, Fred Fanning. He did not return to NSW and lived the remainder of his life in Coburg Melbourne and worked as a rubber worker.
He died in Heidelberg in 1957 and is buried in a military grave in Bulla Cemetery.
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