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STOREY, Thomas Victor
| Service Number: | 706 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 August 1914, Morphettville, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Company Sergeant Major |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Numurkah, Victoria, Australia, 27 February 1894 |
| Home Town: | Hackney, Norwood Payneham St Peters, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Blacksmith |
| Died: | Natural causes, Norwood, South Australia, 10 September 1939, aged 45 years |
| Cemetery: |
AIF Cemetery, West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia Section: LO, Road: 9N, Site No: 10 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 706, Morphettville, South Australia | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 706, 10th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Corporal, 706, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Adelaide | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 706, 10th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 6 Mar 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Company Sergeant Major, 706, 10th Infantry Battalion |
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From How We Served
706 Warrant Officer 2nd Class Thomas Victor Storey of originally Korumburra, Victoria had been employed as a blacksmith and was residing South Australia when he enlisted for War Service on the 25th of August 1914. Thomas was a noted sportsman before joining up, and had just started his football career, playing for the Norwood Football Club during 1914.
Once enlisted, Thomas was allocated to the 10th Battalion 1st AIF and was embarked for Egypt and further training on the 20th of October. With the pending operations against the Turkish forces, Thomas was with his Battalion when they landed ashore on Gallipoli on the 25th of April 1915 and he was wounded in action by a gunshot wound to his right leg. Following hospitalisation in Egypt he was returned to duty and was back with his Unit on Gallipoli by the start of June, and was evacuated again, this time due to sickness on the 21st of July.
Treated for rheumatism whilst in hospital on Malta, Thomas would be deemed well enough to return to Gallipoli by mid-October, only to be evacuated due to diphtheria and further medical treatment. Thomas was back with his Battalion, and following the end of the Galipoli campaign, and further training he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant and with his Battalion he was shipped to France, arriving on the 3rd of April 1916.
Now in the trenches of Northern France, Thomas was shot in the face and was evacuated on the 23rd of June to the Military hospital at Etaples but again returned to his Unit on the 10th of August and having been promoted to the temporary rank of Company Sergeant Major Thomas was embarked for England to attend a Senior NCO’s course of instruction by the 28th of October. Sickness again dogged Thomas’s service with his being hospitalised in England for having contracted mumps on the 5th of March 1917.
Thomas was back with his Unit in the field by the 5th of October 1917 which were being prepared for the Third Battle of Ypres, and aside a brief spell of leave in Paris his service in the field would be continuous until he was wounded for the third time by shrapnel to his right shoulder on the 4th of July 1918. Back in England for hospitalisation, this time Thomas would not be returned to the trenches, and was embarked for his repatriation back to Australia on the 20th of November 1918.
Following his return Thomas received his discharge from the 1st AIF on the 6th of March 1919 and was re-entered into civilian life. Thomas’s untimely death at the age of 46 occurred on the 11th of September 1939, and following this he was formally laid to rest within West Terrace Cemetery, South Australia.
Biography
"...706 Corporal Thomas Victor Storey, was born at Shepparton, Victoria, in 1894. Amongst the first to enlist after war was declared he enlisted at Morphettville, South Australia, on 24 August 1914 and served with the 10th Battalion. He was wounded in action at Gallipoli on 9 September 1915 and again in France on 23 July 1916. He returned to Australia in 1919 and died at Norwood on 10 September 1939." - SOURCE (collections.slsa.sa.gov.au)
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