Thomas Wesley ALLEN MM

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ALLEN, Thomas Wesley

Service Number:	3228
Enlisted:	23 July 1915, Keswick Barracks, Adelaide
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	50th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Moonta, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, 1885
Home Town:	Broken Hill, Broken Hill Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Northfield, SA, 13 October 1935, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	West Terrace Cemetery (AIF Section) Section: LO, Road: 6S, Site No: 21
Memorials:	Broken Hill Barrier District Roll of Honour, Broken Hill South Mine Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

23 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Keswick Barracks, Adelaide
27 Oct 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3228, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' 11th Reinforcements. Transferred to 50th Battalion February 1916.
27 Oct 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3228, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Adelaide
29 Feb 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3228, 50th Infantry Battalion, Trans from 10th Battalion reinforcements to 50th Battalion in Middle East
6 Jan 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1
Date unknown:	Involvement 10th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières
Date unknown:	Honoured Military Medal
Date unknown:	Wounded 3228, 50th Infantry Battalion

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Biography

Thomas Allen enlisted in July 1915, aged almost 30. He was posted as a reinforcement to the 10th Infantry Battalion and before being taken on strength was transferred to the 50th Infantry Battalion in the Middle East in February 1916. He was wounded with a gunshot to the arm in France on 25/4/1918, evacuated to England and returned aboard the 'Arawa' to Australia for recuperation. Discharged medically unfit in 1919, he was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field. He died in the early 1930s leaving a second wife and four children.

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