OGILVIE, Thomas Alexander
| Service Number: | 721 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 September 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Second Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Williamstown, Victoria, Australia, 7 January 1887 |
| Home Town: | Toorak, Stonnington, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Scotch College and Melbourne University, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Solicitor |
| Died: | Died of Wounds, Malta, 18 August 1915, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
Pieta Military Cemetery Plot A, Grave No. VII, Row 6 |
| Memorials: | Lindisfarne Officers of the 12th Battalion Pictorial Honour Roll, Melbourne Law Institute of Victoria Roll of Honour, Melbourne Scots Church Roll of Honour, The South Australian National War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 721, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 17 Sep 1914: | Embarked 721, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Melbourne | |
| 17 Sep 1914: | Involvement 721, 12th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Oct 1914: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Sergeant, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
| 10 Jul 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
| 6 Aug 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 721, 12th Infantry Battalion, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli, Serious SW to right eye. Evacuated to Auberge de Baviere hospital in Valletta, Malta, where he later died of his wounds on 18 August 1915. | |
| 18 Aug 1915: | Involvement Second Lieutenant, 12th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: 12th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Second Lieutenant awm_died_date: 1915-08-18 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
During his first year of University study Thomas "Alick" Ogilvie made a single appearance for Melbourne FC against Geelong during the 1905 VFL season.
When University FC was admitted to the VFL for the 1908 season, he resumed his VFL football career, and played for University in its first VFL match (against Carlton). In all, he made 27 appearances (1908-09) and, mostly playing as a forward, kicked 20 goals.
He was regarded as one of the team’s leading players and also represented Victoria in the 1908 Melbourne Carnival.
Source: wikipedia and Robert Wight
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From How We Served
Second Lieutenant Thomas Alexander Ogilvie (721) of Toorak, Victoria, was married and was a practising solicitor when he enlisted for War Service on the 4th of September 1914.
Allocated to the original 12th Battalion, 1st AIF, Thomas, then a Sergeant, was embarked with the First Australian Contingent on the 20th of October, bound for Egypt and further training.
His Battalion was committed to the Dardanelles campaign, and Thomas was with his Unit on the 25th of April 1915 when they were landed on Gallipoli. By the 10th of July Thomas had received his Field Commission whilst in the trenches and was promoted to Second Lieutenant.
During the August Offensive, Thomas received serious gunshot wounds to the head and right eye on the 7th of August during the fighting to capture Lone Pine, and he was evacuated to Malta for hospitalisation.
Thomas's condition only worsened and on the 18th of August 1915 he 'succumbed to his head wounds that he'd received whilst serving at Gallipoli. He was aged 28.
2nd Lieutenant Thomas Ogilvie was to receive a formal military funeral, and he was interred within Pieta Military Cemetery, Tal-Pieta, Malta (Island), Malta.
Back home in Australia, the supreme sacrifice made by Thomas during the 'Great War' was privately commemorated at the Ogilvie family's collective burial site within Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria.
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