TOOMEY, Stewart Thomas
| Service Number: | 3461 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 January 1917, Enlisted at Royal Agricultural Society Showgrounds, Moore Park, Sydney. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia, 30 September 1898 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Porter |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 7 May 1918, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
Pernois British Cemetery, Halloy-les-Pernois, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Jan 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3461, 45th Infantry Battalion , Enlisted at Royal Agricultural Society Showgrounds, Moore Park, Sydney. | |
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| 24 Jan 1917: | Involvement Private, 3461, 45th Infantry Battalion , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Jan 1917: | Embarked Private, 3461, 45th Infantry Battalion , HMAT Anchises, Sydney | |
| 6 May 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3461, 3rd Infantry Battalion, He was wounded in action with shrapnel to his abdomen and admitted to the 11th Australian Field Ambulance and the 4th Casualty Clearing Station. He died of the wounds the next day. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Stewart Thomas TOOMEY, (Service Number 3461) was born on 30th September 1898 at St Leonards. From 1st December 1914 he was working as a junior porter in the Traffic Branch of the NSW Railways in the Sydney District He joined the Expeditionary Forces on 5th January 1917. Three days earlier he had enlisted at the Royal Agricultural Society Showgrounds, Moore Park, Sydney. He gave his father, Patrick Toomey living in St Leonards, as his next of kin.
He was allotted to the 9th Reinforcements to the 45th Battalion. He embarked HMAT ‘Anchises’ at Sydney on 24th January 1917 and reached Devonport (England) on 27th March. He marched in to the 12th Training Battalion at Codford and remained there for the rest of 1917. In November he was Absent Without Leave for a day and was penalised with the loss of two days’ pay as well as pay for the day he was absent.
On 16th January 1918 he proceeded overseas to France through Southampton to the Australian Infantry Base Depot at Rouelles and was taken on strength of the 3rd Australian Infantry Battalion in the field on 21st January.
He was wounded in action on 6th May 1918 with shrapnel to his abdomen . He was admitted to the 11th Australian Field Ambulance and the 4th Casualty Clearing Station but died of the wounds the next day.
He was buried at Pernois, Sheet XI S9 C6 by the Rev E J McKee, chaplain attached to the 4th CCS officiated. After the war this cemetery was more formally named the Pernois British Cemetery. It is situated at Amiens, France.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.