THOMSON, Charles Aitken
| Service Number: | 472 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 August 1914, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Roxburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1888 |
| Home Town: | Forest Lodge, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Gardener |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 2 May 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave Panel 19., Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 472, 2nd (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC), Enlisted at Sydney, NSW | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 472, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 472, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He is one of 3 Australian soldiers of the Great War, named Thomson, who are honoured on the Jedburgh War Memorial.
Biography contributed by Carol Foster
Address at the time of enlistment was 8 Foss Street, Forest Lodge, NSW
Son of Mary Hume Thomson of Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Served a 3 year apprenticeship with Lord S. Campbell of Jedburgh, Roxburghsire, Scotland
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He is one of three Australian Thomson honoured on the Jedburgh War Memorial-the others are George and Robert Hume Thomson-shown as R.T. Thomson on the Memorial.
Also honoured here is Third Engineer James Oliver Murray, aged 33 who died whilst serving in the Mercantile Marine aboard the S.S. "Australdale" (Brisbane) on 19/10/1917. He was born in Jedburgh, the son of the late Robert and Barbara Murray; husband of Elizabeth Purves Murray (nee Scott), of Borough View, Jedburgh, Roxburghshire.
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