HOGAN, Thomas
| Service Number: | 6493 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 April 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 6 November 1869 |
| Home Town: | Marrickville, Marrickville, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tailor |
| Died: | 27 March 1933, aged 63 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Apr 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6493, 4th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 30 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 6493, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 6493, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Sydney | |
| 15 Apr 1917: | Imprisoned The Outpost Villages - German Withdrawal to Hindenburg Line |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
6493 Private Thomas Hogan 4th Battalion AIF, enlisted 26 April 1916, age 47, with his son 6494 Private William John Hogan of the same unit who was aged 17. Another son 6621 Private John Laurence Hogan had enlisted the week before, also in the 4th Battalion and the three left for overseas together during September 1916. He was only 16 years of age. Another son, 5112 Private Thomas Hogan, age 19, had enlisted in the 1st Battalion about 7 months before during September 1915.
On the 14 April 1917, somehow young Thomas Hogan was able to transfer to the 4th Battalion to be with his father and two brothers on the day before the unit was attacked at Lagnicourt. During the fighting at Lagnicourt Thomas Hogan, the father, and his son William John Hogan were both captured by the Germans when their outpost was overrun. The father was quite badly wounded, lost his right eye to shrapnel, was wounded in the right arm and his left ankle was very badly smashed, crippling him.
Thomas Hogan, the son, was badly wounded in the thigh during the fighting the same day and was sent home to Australia a few months later.
The Hogan father and son survived captivity and were returned to Australia during 1919. The other son, John Laurence Hogan also returned in 1919.