KNOX, Thomas
| Service Number: | 6548 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 13th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Leven, Scotland, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Plasterer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 11 April 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 6548, 13th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
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| 7 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 6548, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 28 and the son of John Christie Knox and Betsy Knox; husband of Isabella Knox, of "Miawera", Slade St., Naremburn, North Sydney, New South Wales.
He is one of three Australian soldiers of the Great War remembered on the Scoonie war memorial.
Scoonie is a parish in Fife, Scotland containing the town of Leven. It is bordered on the north by the parishes of Kettle and Ceres, on the east by the parish of Largo, on the south by the parishes of Markinch and Wemyss, and on the west by the parishes of Markinch and Kennoway.
The war memorial stands in Leven next to Scoonie Parish Church. As was the case in many parishes following the First World War, there was much discussion and some delay in arriving at a final decision on how to commemorate the fallen. In the parish of Scoonie, a sub-committee was appointed to bring forward schemes and costings. On 7 May 1919, the Dundee Courier reported that "five schemes are to be submitted to a public meeting. These include a Town Hall, a Town Hall and Municipal Buildings, a public park with arch on which the names will be inscribed, and a monument in stone, two different sites being suggested."
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