ELLIS, Thomas Walter
| Service Number: | 552 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | Enfield, New South Wales, Australia, July 1897 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Plumber |
| Died: | Nervous breakdown, Petersham, New South Wales, Australia, 11 March 1928 |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood General Cemetery, New South Wales, Australia Buried with Hester Webster Zone C, Section T, 10860 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 552, 5th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
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| 6 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 552, 5th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Orsova, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Pam Trimmer
Born at Enfield, a suburb of Sydney to George Edward Ellis and Harriett Hannah nee Ackroyd, he married Evelyn Webster and had two children, Violetta and Robert.
When he joined joined the AIF with his brother Stanley, he was an apprentice plumber and only 18 years and 11 months old and was required to obtain permission from his father. He suffered a GSW to his left shoulder at Rouen in France. He arrived home on board the ship Euripidis. (Casualty list)
Because of the manner of his death, both children benefitted from the group called Legacy. Both received schooling and then career training. Violetta in secretarial work and Robert went into Advertising.
The Sun Newspaper (6 March 1928, p.2) recorded that he had been suffering from a nervous breakdown. We would probably say PTSD today.
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