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MURRIN, Thomas Stanley
| Service Number: | 4146 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Moonta, South Australia, Australia, 24 January 1887 |
| Home Town: | Moonta, Copper Coast, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Laborer |
| Died: | Wallaroo, South Australia, 3 March 1954, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Moonta Cemetery, South Australia |
| Memorials: | Moonta Corporation of The Town of Moonta Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 4146, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company) | |
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| 25 May 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 4146, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 25 May 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 4146, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 25 May 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 4146, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Melbourne | |
| 25 May 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 4146, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Melbourne | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Sergeant, 4146 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Two cousins also from Moonta died during the First World War.
2415 Pte. Thomas John Murrin 50th Battalion AIF, killed in action in France on 2 April 1917, aged 34.
5581 Spr. Albert Harry Murrin 1st Australian Tunnelling Company killed in action 18 September 1917, aged 33.
Thomas served with the Tunnellers on the Western Front from September 1916 till his return to Australia during July 1919. He was promoted to Sergeant.
He married in 1920 and his son was born the next year. His son, Leading Aircraftman George Burnaford Murrin 52 Operational Base Unit RAAF suffered a fractured skull in a motor vehicle accident near Darwin, NT and died on 27 April 1944, aged 22.
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