THOMPSON, John James
| Service Number: | 4198 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 23rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | South Melbourne Victoria, February 1886 |
| Home Town: | South Melbourne, Port Phillip, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Box maker |
| Died: | TB - war related, Military Sanatorium Macleod, Melbourne, 11 September 1922 |
| Cemetery: |
Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 13 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4198, 23rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 7 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, 4198, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, 4198, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne | |
| 13 Jun 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4198, 23rd Infantry Battalion, 3rd MD, TB |
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From How We Served
The final resting place for; - 4198 Private John James Thompson of South Melbourne, Victoria who before enlisting for War Service on the 13th of July 1915 had been employed as a box maker. John was allocated to reinforcements for the 23rd Battalion 1st AIF, and was embarked for Egypt and further training on the 7th of March 1916.
From Egypt John would be shipped to England, arriving on the 12th of June, and from here he was sent to France where he entered the ‘Bull Ring’ at Etaples on the 17th of September. By the 1st of October John had formally joined his Battalion who were by now in the trenches of Belgium, and would remain on duty until the 20th of December when he was sent to hospital suffering influenza. On the 1st of January 1917 John was sent back to England for further treatment where he was diagnosed as having contracted tuberculosis.
There would be no improvement in John’s health and he would be embarked for his repatriation to Australia as an invalid, departing England on the 17th of March 1917. Having returned to Australia, John was to be further hospitalised at the 5th Australian General Hospital (Melbourne) and the 11th Australian General Hospital (Caulfield), during which he received his official discharge from the 1st AIF for his re-entry into civilian life on the 23rd of June 1917.
John would receive on going treatment for the TB he had contracted whilst on service at the Military Sanatorium Macleod, but his health continued to deteriorate with his passing occurring on the 11th of September 1922.
Following his death John was formally interred within Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria.
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