Thomas HANNAM

HANNAM, Thomas

Service Number: 582
Enlisted: 8 February 1915, Enlisted at Keswick, SA
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 27th Infantry Battalion
Born: Adelaide, South Australia, 6 June 1891
Home Town: Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Killed in Action, Pozieres, France, 4 August 1916, aged 25 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
No known grave, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials: Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gawler May's Mechanics Band Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
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World War 1 Service

8 Feb 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 582, 27th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Keswick, SA
31 May 1915: Involvement Private, 582, 27th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: ''
31 May 1915: Embarked Private, 582, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Adelaide
18 Sep 1915: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 582, 27th Infantry Battalion, Severe gunshot wound to the arm

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Birth name is Tom Clifford Hannam Book/Page 481/29

Son of William James Hannam and Sarah Elizabeth (nee Kaye) Hannam of Adelaide; brother of William James Hannam, Ethel May Hannam, Millicent Hannam, Bertie, Hannam, Stanley Roy Hannam, Hilda Elizabeth Hannam, Elsie Lillian Hannam, Linda Evelyn Annie Hannam, Harold George Hannam and Donald Hannam

Next of kin was given as his brother Stanley Roy Hannam of 9 Spencer Street, Adelaide

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

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