MUNN, Thornton Douglas Gordon
| Service Number: | 4248 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 July 1915, at Melbourne |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 59th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Apsley, Victoria, Australia, January 1895 |
| Home Town: | Apsley, West Wimmera, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Apsley State School,Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Grazier |
| Died: | Natural Causes, Edenhope, Victoria, Australia, 30 September 1976 |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Apsley War Memorial, Kowree Shire Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4248, 5th Infantry Battalion, at Melbourne | |
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| 29 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 4248, 5th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 4248, 5th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Melbourne | |
| 25 Jul 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 4248, 5th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , GSW head | |
| 5 Jul 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Sergeant, 4248, 60th Infantry Battalion | |
| 8 Aug 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Sergeant, 4248, 60th Infantry Battalion, The Battle of Amiens | |
| 25 Sep 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sergeant, 59th Infantry Battalion |
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Thorton Douglas Gordon Munn was born in 1895 in Apsley, Victoria. He worked as a grazier on a farm with his father James Munn. He attended the Apsley State School and his religion was The Church of England. Thorton enlisted for the war on the 22nd of July 1915. He served in World War 1 in Egypt on the Western Front in the 5th Battalion, 13th Reinforcement. He embarked on that journey at twenty years old in Melbourne, Victoria on the 29th of December 1915. During the war, Thorton was wounded in action three times. While at War, he was awarded many medals including the Croix de Guerre (Belgium) and the Commonwealth Gazette on July 23rd 1919. Thorton was discharged from the war and died of natural causes on the 30th of September 1976 at 81 years old. He is now buried in the Apsley Cemetery in Victoria.
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