Thomas Edwin BATCHELOR

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BATCHELOR, Thomas Edwin

Service Number:	233
Enlisted:	10 January 1916, Adelaide
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	43rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Salisbury, South Australia, 15 February 1886
Home Town:	Salisbury, Salisbury, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Laborer and wood worker
Died:	Died of wounds and medical fault , France, 13 April 1918, aged 32 years
Cemetery:	Etaples Military Cemetery Plot XX1X, Row B, Grave 9A,
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Salisbury & District Roll of Honour, Salisbury Eternal Flame Honour Board, Salisbury War Memorial

World War 1 Service

9 Jun 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, HMAT Afric, Adelaide
10 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Adelaide
9 Jun 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 233, 43rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: ''
9 Jun 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 233, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Adelaide
13 Apr 1918:	Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 233, 43rd Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 233 awm_unit: 43rd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-04-13

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Biography

Son of Robert Pearce BATCHELOR and Anne nee AKERMAN

Biography contributed by Adelaide Botanic High School

Thomas Edwin Bachelor was born in Salisbury in 1887. At 29, during the second year of World War 1, he decided to join the military. He fought in the trenches of the Western Front until he fell in the battle of Mount St. Quentin at 31. His next of kin was his mother Mary Anne Bachelor. His father died 5 years prior to his enlistment. His mother would then die while he was at war.

Thomas enlisted in Adelaide on the 10th of January 1916. Originally being enlisted in the second battalion, he was transferred on the 17th March 1916 to the 43rd Battalion. With this transfer soon came a promotion to Corporal on the 9th of June 1916. He was posted to France on the 25th of November 1916.

Thomas Edwin Bachelor died on the 13 of April 1918 in hospital from his wounds. Mortar shrapnel hit him from the behind fracturing his pelvis and breaking some other bones. He would eventually die and the report would say “succumbing to his wounds”. Three notes were sent to his mother, one when he was sent to hospital saying he’d been injured, one saying he had passed and one saying he had recovered.

After Thomas’s passing, he was buried in the military cemetery at Etaples Military Cemetery (Plot XXIX, Row B, Grave No. 9A), France where he still lies to this day under a wooden cross bearing his name number and rank.

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