Thomas Shepherd CARMAN

CARMAN, Thomas Shepherd

Service Numbers: SX11035, S30605
Enlisted: 21 January 1941
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: Blair Athol, South Australia, 13 November 1918
Home Town: Edwardstown, Marion, South Australia
Schooling: Edwardstown Public School, South Australia
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Drowned, Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia, 3 November 1942, aged 23 years
Cemetery: West Terrace Cemetery (General) Adelaide, South Australia
Sturt plot. Row 12. Grave 15W
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World War 2 Service

21 Jan 1941: Involvement Private, SX11035
21 Jan 1941: Involvement Private, S30605
21 Jan 1941: Enlisted Adelaide, SA
21 Jan 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, SX11035
24 Mar 1942: Discharged

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Biography

Pte Thomas Sheperd Carman, 2/6th AAMC, AIF of 75 Gladys Street Edwardstown. Aged 23. Son of Mrs I and the late A E Carman. Educated at Edwardstown Public School. Fond of cricket, tennis, football and played soccer for Kingswood, also member of several sporting clubs. Served some time in the Militia and then transferred to 2/6th in January 1941. Trained in South Australia and Darwin then to Victoria, and while at Heidelburg he broke his arm. During convalescence poison set in and he was discharged from AIF and joined Home Defence. On 3rd November 1942 while swimming at Ivanhoe, Victoria he was seized with cramp and before assistance could be brought he drowned.

Information supplied from The Personal Pictorial Honor Roll of South Australians who have enlisted in the Second World War.

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