MCLOUGHLIN, Tom
| Service Number: | 4533 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 15 August 1885 |
| Home Town: | Cooks Hill, Newcastle West, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | St. Mary's-Marist Bros' School, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Painter (Walsh Island Government Dockyard, Newcastle, N.S.W.) |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Amiens, France, 15 August 1918, aged 33 years |
| Cemetery: |
Fouquescourt British Cemetery, France Plot I, Row A, Grave No. 7 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Newcastle (Gardner Memorial) War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4533, 3rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 15 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 4533, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Osterley embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 15 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 4533, 3rd Infantry Battalion, RMS Osterley, Sydney |
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From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 15th August 1918, Private Thomas McLoughlin, 3rd Battalion (Reg No-4533), painter (Walsh Island Government Dockyard, Newcastle, N.S.W.), from 46 Brooks Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales, was Killed in Action at Amiens, France, age 33. Cause of death unknown.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Newcastle, New South Wales on the 15th August 1885 to John (died 15.5.1888, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 32), from 46 Brooks Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales, and Sarah Elizabeth McLoughlin nee Giblin (died 3.12.1929, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 72, mother of 5?), from 46 Brooks Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales and 35 Brooks Street, Cooks Hill, N.S.W., Tom enlisted on the 23rd August 1915 as Tom at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board RMS Osterley on the 15th January 1916.
Wounded in action - 27.7.1916 (GSW both buttocks), 5.11.1917 (SW right forearm), 21.3.1918 (gas).
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138738961 - the 370th Australian Casualty list, N.S.W., WOUNDED, Private T. M'Loughlin (Cooks Hill), second occasion.
Admitted to hospital 13.1.1917 (dermatitis), 28.2.1917 (boils, slight), 6.7.1918 (tumour, right eye).
Granted furlough to England from 19.3.1917 to 4.4.1917.
Mr. McLoughlin is resting at Fouquescourt British Cemetery, France. Plot I Row A Grave 7.
Place of Association - Cooks Hill, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Tom’s name has been inscribed on the St. Mary's-Marist Bros' School (Newcastle) Honour Roll, Gardner Memorial and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised McLoughlin gravesite in remembrance of their son’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. CATHOLIC 1-E Com. 6.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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