DAVIDSON, John Thomas
| Service Number: | 2891 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 October 1916, 4 years senior cadets, 2 months 16th Infantry |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 46th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | North Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 26 March 1898 |
| Home Town: | New Lambton, Lake Macquarie Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Tighes Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 16 September 1936, aged 38 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 3 (UNITING) K. 5. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2891, 46th Infantry Battalion, 4 years senior cadets, 2 months 16th Infantry | |
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| 17 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 2891, 46th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Port Napier embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 17 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 2891, 46th Infantry Battalion, SS Port Napier, Sydney | |
| 11 Apr 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2891, 46th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
87 years ago today, on the Thursday afternoon of the 17th September 1936, Private John Thomas Davidson, usually referred to as Thomas, 46th Battalion (Reg No-2891), labourer and hod carrier from Orchard Town, New Lambton, New South Wales and John Street, Tighes Hill, N.S.W., father of four (Olga, Bartholomew, Betty, Myrtle), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 38. METHODIST 3 (UNITING) K. 5.
Born at North Lambton, New South Wales on the 26th March 1898 to Bartholomew and Catherine Emma Davidson nee Davies (McInerney); husband of Olga May Davidson nee Peterson (married 1921, New Lambton, N.S.W., remarried 1936?, Stockton, N.S.W. to George Dowds or 1940? to Harold Keith Donoghoe, Newcastle, N.S.W., died?), John enlisted on the 2nd October 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board SS Port Napier on the 17th November 1916.
Wounded in action - 8.8.1918 (GSW right hand, Battle of Amiens).
John was invalided home on the 19th December 1918, being discharged medically unfit (GSW right hand, ulna nerve severed at base of 5th metacarpal) on the 11th April 1919.
Mr. Davidson’s name has been inscribed on the New Lambton War Memorial Gates, Lambton and New Lambton Municipal District Roll of Honor and the New Lambton Public School Roll of Honour.
I located John resting in an unmarked grave, so September 2016 I placed a cross adorned with poppies on the gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
John had died on the 16th September 1936 at the Newcastle Hospital, N.S.W. of lobar pneumonia.
I submitted an application to DVA January 2021 asking for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque, curbing and marble chip, but this was declined April 2021.
I had assumed that maybe John had been forgotten, but to my great relief a family headstone had been installed February 2021.
Unfortunately, there is no inscription to tell us of John’s service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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