GILLONS, Thomas
| Service Number: | 73 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 October 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 34th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Cardiff, New South Wales, Australia, 27 December 1876 |
| Home Town: | Kurri Kurri, Cessnock, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 7 June 1917, aged 40 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium, Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 31 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 73, 34th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 73, 34th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 2 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 73, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War awaiting memorialisation at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 7th June 1917, Private Thomas Gillons, 34th Battalion (Reg No-73), labourer or bookmaker's clerk from the Empire Hotel, Kurri Kurri, New South Wales or Belford, N.S.W., was killed by enemy artillery shell fragments about 3 a.m. possibley by GSW to thigh in No Man's Land, near Ploegsteert Wood, Battle of Messines, age 40. No known grave, Known unto God, The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium.
Born at Cardiff, New South Wales on the 27th December 1876 to Thomas (died tragically 28.6.1890, Church Street, New Lambton, N.S.W., age 55, buried Old Wallsend Cemetery), and Sarah Ann Gillons nee Walters (died 23.9.1904, 34 Queens Road, New Lambton, N.S.W., age 64, sleeping here); Half-brother to Selina Groves (Grose) nee Seres (died 26.4.1931, Wallsend, N.S.W., age 61, sleeping here) from 34 Queens Road, New Lambton, N.S.W., Tom enlisted on the 31st December 1915 at Cessnock, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A20 Hororata on the 2nd May 1916.
Admitted to hospital 2.2.1917 (scabies).
Reported Wounded in Action 10.6.1917.
Reported KIA 20.11.1917.
Mr. Gillons’s name has been inscribed on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium.
Place of Association – New Lambton, New South Wales, Australia.
Tom’s name has also been inscribed on the Lambton/New Lambton Municipal District Roll of Honor, New Lambton War Memorial Gates, New Lambton Public School Roll of Honour and New Lambton Mechanics' Institute certificate. Name not inscribed on the Kurri Kurri Methodist Church Roll of Honor or the Kurri Kurri Soldiers' Memorial.
Unfortunately, there is no memorial inscription on the Gillons headstone to tell us of the loss of her son during The Great War, and I am unable to erect a Memorial cross, so I have placed poppies at the gravesite in remembrance of Tom’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) D NE. 5.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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