RAMSAY, Thomas
| Service Number: | 1227 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 9th Light Trench Mortar Battery |
| Born: | Minmi, New South Wales, Australia , 17 March 1885 |
| Home Town: | Cessnock, Cessnock, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Minmi Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Ambulance Train No. 33, Rouen, France, 31 March 1918, aged 33 years |
| Cemetery: |
St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen Block P, Plot IX, Row K, Grave No. 11A |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Minmi Roll of Honour, Minmi St Andrew's Church Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1227, 34th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 1227, 34th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 2 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 1227, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney | |
| 31 Mar 1918: | Involvement Private, 1227, 9th Light Trench Mortar Battery, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1227 awm_unit: 9th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-03-31 |
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From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen Soldier of The Great War memorialised at Mimi Cemetery, N.S.W.
On the 31st March 1918, Private Thomas Ramsay, referred to as Squatter, 9th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery, (Reg No-1227), miner (Aberdare Colliery), from Cumberland Street, Cessnock, New South Wales, Died of Wounds at Ambulance Train No. 33, Rouen, France, age 32.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Minmi Coalfield, New South Wales on the 17th March 1885 to James (died 20.5.1926, Wallsend, N.S.W., age 85, buried at Wallsend Cemetery, N.S.W., not listed on Find a Grave), from Minmi, N.S.W. and King Street, Cessnock, N.S.W. (1918) and Allandale Road, Cessnock, N.S.W., and Agnes Ramsay (died 27.6.1914, Minmi, N.S.W., age 68, no funeral notice located, sleeping at Left Hand Side, Section 09, Plot 038), from Minmi, N.S.W.
Squatter enlisted on the 17th January 1916 with the 34th Battalion, age 30 years 10 months, at West Maitland, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A20 Hororata on the 2nd May 1916.
Disembarked Plymouth, England 23.6.1916.
Taken on Strength 9th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery 15.11.1916.
Proceeded O/Seas to France from Southampton, England 21.11.1916.
Admitted to 9th Australian Field Ambulance 7.12.1916 (pleurisy), 8.12.1917 (scabies).
Granted furlough in England from 18.8.1917 to 1.9.1917.
Wounded in action - 25.7.1917 (GSW head & right cheek, slight), 30.3.1918 (enemy artillery shell fragment to base of the skull, severe, village of Cachy, east of Amiens).
Place of Association - Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia.
Mr. Ramsay's name has been inscribed on the Minmi Roll of Honour, Minmi St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour, Cessnock War Memorial and the Book of Gold.
I have placed poppies at the Ramsay memorialised gravesite, Minmi Cemetery, in remembrance of the service and supreme sacrifice of Squatter for God, King & Country. Left Hand Side, Section 09, Plot 038.
Many thanks to Jeanette Park and Ros Cheetham for the notification.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
Lest We Forget.
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