KING, Alfred Thomas
| Service Number: | 2342 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 May 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Liverpool Plains, New South Wales, Australia, 16 March 1881 |
| Home Town: | Waratah West, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Carpenter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Messines, Belgium, 7 June 1917, aged 36 years |
| Cemetery: |
Strand Military Cemetery, Ploegsteert, Wallonie, Belgium Plot VIII, Row I, Grave 10, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Waratah Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 4 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2342, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 17 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 2342, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 2342, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 7th June 1917, Private Alfred Thomas King, referred to as Tom and Tosca, 35th Battalion (Reg No-2342), carpenter from Scholey Street, Waratah, (Mayfield, Islington West) New South Wales, was Killed in Action by an enemy artillery shell or shrapnel, Ploegsteert Wood, Battle of Messines, age 36.
Born at Liverpool Plains, Gunnedah, New South Wales on the 16th March 1881 to Alfred Stephen (died 12.4.1930, Mayfield, N.S.W., age 75) and Lydia Millicent King (died 23.5.1922, Waratah, N.S.W., age?), Tom enlisted on the 20th April 1916 at Waratah, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A30 Borda on the 17th October 1916.
Admitted to hospital 13.2.1917 (not stated).
No report located on Trove of being KIA.
Note (see Trove link): inserted by his comrade, G. Oldfield (returned), Private George Oldfield, 35th Battalion, Reg No-2370, wounded in action - 7.6.1917 (GSW left forearm, mild, Battle of Messines), invalided home on the 13th November 1917 (compound fracture of right ulna), being discharged medically unfit on the 18th December 1917, laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery on the 6th November 1934, age 57, father of six, no headstone, wooden cross erected - 14.2.2021. METHODIST 4-07. 54.
Tom is resting at the Strand Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot VIII Row I Grave 10.
Place of Association - Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Mr. King’s name has been inscribed on the Waratah Park Memorial Gates, Book of Gold and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name should be inscribed on the Newcastle Progressive Carpenters & Joiners Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised gravesite of the King family in remembrance of the service and supreme sacrifice of Tom for God, King & Country. ANGLICAN 1-08. 14.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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