PARKER, Thomas Picton
| Service Number: | 951 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 7th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Inglewood, Victoria, Australia, April 1890 |
| Home Town: | Inglewood, Loddon, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Driver |
| Died: | 1946, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Inglewood Salisbury West State School Roll of Honour, Inglewood War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 951, 7th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 951, 7th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 951, 7th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne | |
| 16 Apr 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 7th Infantry Battalion | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 951, 7th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, GSW to left shoulder. Evacuated to England and RTA 7 November 1915. | |
| 14 Mar 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 951, 7th Infantry Battalion, Medically unfit (left shoulder). |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
Brother of L Cpl 950 George Frederick Parker (KIA at Pozieres 25 July 1916).
From the Inglewood Advertiser, Tuesday 30 November 1915 page 2 article:
"Tidings of Soldiers.
Mrs. Parker, of Southey street, has been informed by the Defence Department that her son, Lance-corporal T. P. Parker, of the 7th Battalion, left England for Australia on November 7th, and will arrive in Melbourne about the 20th December.
Writing from Weymouth (England) Lance-corporal Parker states:—"I was booked for the last batch that left for Australia, but I was out on furlough and they did not send me word from our office in London, so I missed it, but I shall be on the next one that goes. It may be three or four weeks before it goes, and I may not get home for Christmas, but I shall be home some time."
Writing of his injury, he states that the movement in his shoulder is practically gone. He thought he would have got more movements in it, but it is just about the same."
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