Thomas William FOX MM

FOX, Thomas William

    Service Numbers: 3512, 3512
    Enlisted: 5 July 1915, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
    Last Rank: Corporal
    Last Unit: 59th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Carlton, Victoria, Australia, 1887
    Home Town: Fitzroy, Yarra, Victoria
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Wireworker
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    World War 1 Service

    5 Jul 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3512, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
    5 Jan 1916: Involvement Private, 3512, 22nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: ''
    5 Jan 1916: Embarked Private, 3512, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Melbourne
    15 Mar 1916: Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 60th Infantry Battalion, In France
    19 Jul 1916: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3512, 60th Infantry Battalion, Shrapnel wound to the face. Invalided to England aboard HS St Patrick from Boulogne
    6 Jun 1917: Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 60th Infantry Battalion
    2 Aug 1918: Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 60th Infantry Battalion, In France
    25 Sep 1918: Transferred AIF WW1, Corporal, 59th Infantry Battalion, From 60th Battalion
    15 May 1919: Honoured Military Medal, Citation difficult to read. Appears on the Australian War Memorial site London Gazette on 14 May, 1919, page 6057, position 50 Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 15 September 1919, page 1367, position 34
    29 Oct 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 3512, 59th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 3rd Military District

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    Biography contributed by Carol Foster

    Son of Lawson  Charles Fox and Lavinia Susannah Fox nee Stacey  of 449 Gore Street, Fitzroy, Victoria. Brother of Lawson Fox

    On 29 March 1919 Thomas married Elizabeth Jane Bye nee Woodley in Registry Office in St George Hanover Square, London, England. Charles E. Johnson, Registrar officiated

    Commenced return to Australia on the 12 July 1919 aboard HT Indarra disembarking on the 6 September 1919

    Medals: Military Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal

     

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