MURNANE, Thomas
| Service Number: | 842 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 December 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia, 2 January 1884 |
| Home Town: | Minmi, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Colliery-on-setter |
| Died: | Weston, New South Wales, Australia, 18 August 1950, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Kurri Kurri General Cemetery, New South Wales |
| Memorials: | Minmi Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Dec 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 842, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 842, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 842, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 16 Nov 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 842, 35th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, medically discharged (wounding) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
The Minmi Roll of Honour has 79 names inscribed of those who returned home from The Great War.
The 28th name inscribed is Private Thomas Murnane.
On the 19th August 1950, Private Thomas Murnane, 35th Battalion (Reg No-842), colliery onsetter from Main Street, Minmi, New South Wales and Weston, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Kurri Kurri General Cemetery, N.S.W., RC, age 66 years 7 months.
MURNANE, Thomas, Funeral notice, 19th AUG 1950, late of Weston, Newcastle Herald, 19th AUG 1950.
Born at Gunnedah, New South Wales on the 2nd January 1884 as WALL? to Patrick James, died 23.9.1915, Main Street, Minmi, N.S.W., age 87, buried at Sandgate Cemetery, N.S.W., CATHOLIC 1-08. 21, no photo of gravesite, marked?
Born at Gunnedah, New South Wales on the 2nd January 1884 as WALL? to Patrick James, died 23.9.1915, Main Street, Minmi, N.S.W., age 87, buried at Sandgate Cemetery, N.S.W., CATHOLIC 1-08. 21, no photo of gravesite, marked?, and Mary Bridget Murnane nee Maguire, died 10.5.1917, Main Street, Minmi, N.S.W., age 75, mother of 5 sons, 2 daughters, sleeping at Sandgate Cemetery, N.S.W., CATHOLIC 1-08. 21, no photo of gravesite, marked?, from West Maitland, N.S.W. (1916).
Tom enlisted on the 8th December 1915, age 30 years 11 months, at West Maitland, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A24 Benalla on the 1st May 1916.
Disembarked Plymouth, England 9.7.1916.
Proceeded O/Seas to France from Southampton, England 21.11.1916.
Admitted to hospital 11.2.1917 (scabies).
Granted leave to England from 10.12.1917 to 24.12.1917.
Wounded in action - 4.4.1918 (GSW chest, severe).
Invalided to England 9.4.1918.
Commenced return to Australia 24.8.1918.
Tom arrived home invalided on the 9th October 1918, being discharged medically unfit on the 16th November 1918.
Not officially commemorated.
I would like to see poppies placed at Tom’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Younger brother William, born 15.10.1885, West Maitland, New South Wales, labourer from Main Street, Minmi, N.S.W., enlisted 11.12.1915, age 29 years 2 months, at Newcastle, N.S.W., 35th Battalion, Reg No-1184, for more detail see my next post.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/minmi-roll-of-honour/.
Lest We Forget.
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