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KELLY, Thomas Bernard Patrick
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 8242 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 July 1917, at Bordertown |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1885 |
| Home Town: | Keith, Tatiara, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Springbank, South Australia, 27 March 1961, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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Service History
World War 1 Service
| 10 Jul 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 8242, Tunnelling Companies, at Bordertown | |
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| 26 Nov 1917: | Involvement Sapper, 8242, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: SS Indarra embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 26 Nov 1917: | Embarked Sapper, 8242, Tunnelling Companies, SS Indarra, Melbourne | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 8242, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company) |
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Name: Thomas Bernard Patrick Kelly
Service Number: 8242
Thomas Kelly was born in Melbourne, Victoria in Australia. Before he enlisted into the war, he worked as a labourer. He had a high physical fitness level, so he was good at his job. Information on his family or what they did back before World War One is scarce.
Thomas Kelly's embarkation date was on the 26th of November 1917, he embarked in Melbourne on the SS Indarra. He arrived in France in April 1918 and served with the 1st Tunnelling Company through to the end of the war. Thomas returned to Australia in 1920.
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