Thomas Francis KELLY

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Service Number:	371
Enlisted:	8 May 1916, Teralba, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	21st Machine Gun Company
Born:	Barrington, Queensland, February 1894
Home Town:	Hamilton, Southern Grampians, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Rigger
Died:	Died of wounds, France, 22 October 1917
Cemetery:	Etaples Military Cemetery Plot XXX, Row F, Grave No. 10, Etaples Military Cemetery, Etaples, Nord Pas de Calais, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

8 May 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 371, Teralba, New South Wales
19 Sep 1916:	Involvement Private, 371, 5th Machine Gun Company, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Commonwealth embarkation_ship_number: A73 public_note: ''
19 Sep 1916:	Embarked Private, 371, 5th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Commonwealth, Melbourne
15 Jan 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 21st Machine Gun Company
26 Sep 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 371, 21st Machine Gun Company , Third Ypres, Shell wound (back, buttock and left thigh)
22 Oct 1917:	Involvement Private, 371, 21st Machine Gun Company , Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 371 awm_unit: 21st Australian Machine Gun Company awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-22

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'DIED OF WOUNDS.

PRIVATE KELLY.— Mrs. J. Black, Beaumont-street, Hamilton, has been informed that her only son, Private Thomas Francis Kelly, died of wounds on October 22nd.' from Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate 3 Nov 1917 (nla.gov.au)