Thomas (Tom) WATERSON

WATERSON, Thomas

Service Number: 516
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 10th Machine Gun Company
Born: Bruarong, Victoria, Australia, 12 August 1895
Occupation: Engine Cleaner - (Trainee railway fireman)
Died: Beechworth, Victoria, Australia, 11 October 1972, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Beechworth Cemetery, Victoria
Buried at 2.30 pm on Friday - 13.10.1972 in Church of England - Section B - Plot 113 with his wife Mabel Elizabeth Irene. The Beechworth Cemetery Trust was responsible for the 1st A.I.F. Bronze Recognition Plaque mounted on the grave of Private Waterson. DVA has also provided a 1st A.I.F. Bronze Military Recognition Plaque for Private Waterson in the Victorian Garden of Remembrance - Wall: 98, Row P
Memorials: Yackandandah Memorial Gates, Yackandandah St. James' Great European War Roll of Honor

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World War 1 Service

19 Feb 1917: Involvement Private, 516, 10th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: ''
19 Feb 1917: Embarked Private, 516, 10th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Ballarat, Melbourne

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