Benjamin Walter THOMSON

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THOMSON, Benjamin Walter

Service Number:	3641
Enlisted:	18 February 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	31st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Ingebirah, New South Wales, Australia, 21 January 1893
Home Town:	Yarraman, Toowoomba, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Gympie, Queensland, Australia , 4 February 1950, aged 57 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Gympie Cemetery, Qld
Memorials:	Nanango War Memorial, Yarraman War Memorial

World War 1 Service

18 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1
16 Aug 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3641, 31st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Boorara embarkation_ship_number: A42 public_note: ''
16 Aug 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3641, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Boorara, Brisbane
10 Jun 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3641, 31st Infantry Battalion, per Port Lyttleton to Brisbane
21 Sep 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3641, 31st Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Benjamin Walter Thomson was the second child of of John Claud Thomson (born in Queanbayan, NSW) and Mary Ann Woodhouse (born Spring Creek, NSW). Ben's mother died in 1896 when he was 3 years of age, and his father remarried in 1901, having 6 children with second wife Stella Adeline Williams.

Ben states he was a Farmer at Yarraman Creek in 1916 in his Attestation Papers, although the Electoral Records for 1915 and 1916 state his occupation is Labourer. He served in the AIF 31st Battalion 8th Reinforcements as a Private (Service No: 3461) and was in France from 19 August 1916 to 5 August 1919.

Following his Discharge on 21 September 1919, Ben returned to Yarraman Creek near Crow's Nest on the Darling Downs in QLD, and worked as a Labourer. He married Elsie Isabella Heale in 1921 at Yarraman, and the family lived in the region and Ben worked as a Labourer and Carrier. In 1932, Ben was a Farmer at Cooyar in Crow's Nest on the Darling Downs in QLD.

By the mid 1930s the family had moved to Brisbane, QLD where Ben worked as a Labourer until he retired in 1942, when he and Elsie moved to Landsborough in Wide Bay, QLD. Ben died in 1950

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