THOMPSON, Thomas Herbert
| Service Number: | WX14416 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 June 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Durham, England, 19 May 1908 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | labourer |
| Died: | Presumed, At sea (Nino Bixio), Mediterranean Sea, 17 August 1942, aged 34 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Alamein Memorial, El Alamein War Cemetery, El Alamein, Marsa Matruh, Egypt Column 94, Egypt |
| Memorials: | Alamein Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Narrogin War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, WX14416 | |
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| 18 Jun 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX14416, 2nd/32nd Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cherilyn McMeekin
Thomas was the son of Charles and Sarah. He had a brother and three sisters, all born in Durham, England. Thomas was the only family member to come to Western Australia.
He married Ethel NINYETT, a young Noongar woman, in Williams district in 1936 (reg 23). They had a daughter named Heather.
Thomas was one of 41 Australian POWs killed when the Italian transport ship Nino Bixio was torpedoed by a British submarine in the Mediterranean on 17 August 1942. The Nino Bixio was transporting Allied POWs from Libya to Italy. Of the 122 Australian POWs to survive the incident, four died later by execution. Most of the Australian casualties were from the 2/28th Infantry Battalion.
Ethel remarried in 1944 to Alfred GEORGE (1916-1960). She died in Narrogin in December 2004.