Thomas Ernest DAVIS

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DAVIS, Thomas Ernest

Service Number:	1488
Enlisted:	31 October 1914
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	4th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Wellington, New South Wales, Australia, date not yet discovered
Home Town:	Bourke, Bourke, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Killed In Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 2 May 1915, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bourke & District War Memorial

World War 1 Service

31 Oct 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1488, 4th Infantry Battalion
2 May 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1488, 4th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

PTE. T. E. DAVIS.
Private T. E. Davis was just 21 years of age. He left with one of the earliest detachments for the front, and news has just been received of his death in action on May 2, at the Dardanelles. He was the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Davis, sen., of Merton Lane, Bourke, and prior to going to the front had followed the occupation of a station hand, being employed by the Paroo Shearing Co.

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