Thomas Joseph PARKER

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PARKER, Thomas Joseph

Service Number:	Officer
Enlisted:	23 March 1916, Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	4th Divisional Signal Company
Born:	Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 6 September 1883
Home Town:	Middle Park, Port Phillip, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Officer, Instructional Staff
Died:	Died of wounds, Belgium, 12 October 1917, aged 34 years
Cemetery:	Ypres Reservoir Cemetery Plot I, Row H, Grave No. 31
Memorials:	Bendigo Marist Brothers College Great War Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

23 Mar 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, Melbourne, Victoria
25 May 1916:	Embarked 3rd Divisional Signal Company, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne
25 May 1916:	Involvement 3rd Divisional Signal Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
1 Sep 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 3rd Divisional Signal Company, UK
14 May 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 4th Divisional Signal Company, France
26 Sep 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 4th Divisional Signal Company, Polygon Wood
11 Oct 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Lieutenant, Officer, 4th Divisional Signal Company, 1st Passchendaele, Shell wound (fatal)

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Biography contributed by Robert Wight

According to several eye witness reports (red cross file), Lt Parker was wounded (and a padre was killed) by German shell fire as they exited a brigade HQ dugout near Zonnebeke, on 11 October 1917, the eve of the advance on Passchendaele.

He was evacuated to the 13th Aust Field Ambulance at Ypres, however died of his wounds the next day 12 October 1917.

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