Thomas Charles WARREN

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WARREN, Thomas Charles

Service Number:	829
Enlisted:	8 December 1915
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd Motor Transport Company
Born:	Bristol, United Kingdom, 1887
Home Town:	Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Motor mechanic
Died:	Merewether, New South Wales, Australia, 16 May 1935, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 2-133. 78.
Memorials:

World War 1 Service

8 Dec 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 829, Mining Corps
20 Feb 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 829, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
20 Feb 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 829, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
20 Feb 1916:	Embarked Sapper, 829, Mining Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney
20 Feb 1916:	Embarked Sapper, 829, Mining Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney
16 Dec 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 829, 2nd Motor Transport Company, 2nd MD

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.

88 years ago today, on the Friday afternoon of the 17th May 1935, Corporal Thomas Charles Warren, 2nd Australian Motor Transport Company (attached to 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company, Reg No-829), motor mechanic, 11 years with W. Winn & Co, Ltd., from 25a Bolton Street, Newcastle, New South Wales and 97 Mitchell Street, Merewether, N.S.W., father of one (Billy), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 47. ANGLICAN 2-133. 78.

Born at Bristol, United Kingdom about 1887 (migrated to Australia 1913), to Stephen and Elizabeth Warren of 8 Sydenham Road, Knowle, Bristol, England; husband of Dorothy Warren nee Pickering (married 1921, Hornsby, N.S.W., died 14.2.1980, age 83, 45 years a widow, sleeping here), Tom enlisted on the 9th December 1915 with the 1st Mining Corps at Casula, N.S.W.

Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board H.M.A.T. A38 Ulysses on the 20th February 1916.

Granted leave to England from the 2.5.1919 to the 2.8.1919.

Suffering no wounds or illness, Tom returned home on the 24th October 1919, being discharged on the 16th December 1919.

Nothing located on Trove regarding enlistment, returning home, etc.

Mr. Warren’s name has been inscribed on the Newcastle High School Honor Roll, Merewether (Mitchell Park) Memorial Gates and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.

I have placed poppies at Tom’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Not officially commemorated.

Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.

For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/

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