SEYMOUR, Thomas
| Service Number: | 3354 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 May 1915, Claremont, Tas. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 1883 |
| Home Town: | Hobart, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Driver |
| Died: | Died of wounds, 41st CCS, Vecquemont, France, 26 August 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, France Plot VIII, Row A, grave No. 34 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hobart Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 29 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3354, 26th Infantry Battalion, Claremont, Tas. | |
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| 13 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 3354, 26th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Hobart embarkation_ship: HMAT Ajana embarkation_ship_number: A31 public_note: '' | |
| 13 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 3354, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ajana, Hobart | |
| 1 Mar 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 12th Infantry Battalion, Egypt | |
| 23 Aug 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3354, 12th Infantry Battalion, "The Last Hundred Days", GSW to groin, back, buttocks sustained during the 1st Division attack on Chuignes. Evacuated to 41st CCS at Vecquemont, France, where he later died of his wounds on 26 August 1918. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
Born 1883 Hobart Tasmania and married to Ellen Isabella Hutchins of 203 Harrington Street Hobart, a driver he embarked Hobart 13th December 1915 on board “HMAT Ajana” with the 26th Infantry Battalion.
He was admitted to the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance on the 24th August 1918 and transferred to the 41st Casualty Clearing Station where he died 26th August 1918 from gunshot wounds to the left buttock and was buried in the Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, Daours, Somme, France.
"Mrs. E. I. Seymour has received official news that her husband, Private Thomas Seymour, died of gunshot wounds at 41st Casualty Clearing Station on August 26. He enlisted in August, 1915, and after seeing service in Egypt, was transferred to France. He was a native of Hobart, and was well known around the Hobart wharves."
Source: tasmanianwarcasualties.com
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