Thomas Albert (Tom) LUDLAM

LUDLAM, Thomas Albert

Service Number: 20427
Enlisted: 17 August 1917, Sydney, NSW
Last Rank: Sapper
Last Unit: Field Company Engineers
Born: Orange, NSW, 1899
Home Town: Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Christian Brother's College Waverley
Occupation: Engineer's apprentice
Memorials: Sydney Morning Herald and Sydney Mail Record of War Service
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World War 1 Service

17 Aug 1917: Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 20427, Field Company Engineers, Sydney, NSW
21 Nov 1917: Involvement Sapper, 20427, Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: ''
21 Nov 1917: Embarked Sapper, 20427, Field Company Engineers, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Alfred Charles John LUDLAM
Of 'Adyar' Key Street, Randwick, NSW

Eledst son of Mr. A. Ludlam, Thomas was born at Orange in 1899, and educated at the Christian Brother' College, Waverley.  He joined the linotype departmenf of the Sydney Morning Herald in which his father was empoloyed, as an apprentice in Januyar 1915.

Enlisting as a Sapper in the Field Engineers in August, 1917, he went to Egypt, and after a couple of months' service there, proceeded to England, and thence to France, where he arrived in April, 1918.  He saw fighting at Villers Bretonneux, and took part in the advance preceeding the armistice, being wounded at Mont St. Quentin on September 1.  After five months in hospital at Manchester he embarked for Australia, arriving back on April 2, 1919.

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