MACLEAN, Thomas
| Service Number: | 793 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 November 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 1st Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Teralba, New South Wales, Australia, 20 June 1897 |
| Home Town: | Cardiff, Lake Macquarie Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Orchardist |
| Died: | Wounds, Malta, 20 August 1915, aged 18 years |
| Cemetery: |
Pieta Military Cemetery Plot A, Row VIII, Grave No. 2) |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Cardiff Methodist Church Roll of Honour, Cardiff RSL Club Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Nov 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 793, 1st Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 6 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 793, 1st Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Clan MacCorquodale embarkation_ship_number: A6 public_note: '' | |
| 6 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 793, 1st Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Clan MacCorquodale, Sydney | |
| 7 Aug 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Trooper, 793, 1st Light Horse Regiment, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli, bomb wound left hand, right leg, shoulder, dangerously wounded DoW Malta hospital | |
| 20 Aug 1915: | Involvement Trooper, 793, 1st Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 793 awm_unit: 1 Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1915-08-20 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 18 and the son of Charlotte Maclean, of Cardiff, New South Wales, and the late William Maclean.
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
106 years ago today, on the 20th August 1915, Trooper Thomas Maclean, 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment (Reg No-793), farmer (orchardist) from Cardiff, New South Wales, Died of Wounds, age 18.
Born at Cardiff, New South Wales on the 20th June 1897 to William (died 1913, father of 7 daughters, 5 sons) and Charlotte (died 1929) Maclean of Fern Valley, Cardiff, New South Wales, Thomas enlisted November 1914 at Holsworthy, N.S.W.
Stated age to be 18 Years 5 Months, actual age 17 Years 5 Months.
Wounded in action - 7.8.1915 (Gallipoli, Turkey, The Battle of Dead Man's Ridge, bomb wound left hand, right leg, shoulder, dangerously wounded, arrived in Malta 12.8.1915), Thomas is resting at Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta. Plot A Row VII Grave 2.
Mr. Maclean’s name has been inscribed on the Cardiff War Memorial and the Cardiff Methodist Church Roll of Honour (photo courtesy of Dean Barrett, unveiled on the 6th April 1919, 40 names inscribed, 5 Fallen).
The family gravesite at Sandgate Cemetery tells us of the supreme sacrifice of their son Thomas, and I have placed poppies in remembrance of their loss during The Great War. PRESBYTERIAN-13SE. 45.
Many thanks to Thomas's Great Great Niece Sharon Waters and Karen Johnson and Bill Englund for the notification, photos and family history.
Older brother Horace Hector (54th Battalion, Reg No-3147, born 27.7.1889, died 17.7.1968, Wallsend, N.S.W.) also served 1st A.I.F.
Lest We Forget.
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