Thomas (Tom) RICHARDSON

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RICHARDSON, Thomas

Service Number:	684
Enlisted:	29 October 1915
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company)
Born:	Aberfeldy, Victoria, Australia, 30 September 1894
Home Town:	Seymour, Mitchell, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23 August 1954, aged 59 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Pittosporum, Wall 3C, Niche 107
Memorials:	Aberfeldy Seat of Remembrance

World War 1 Service

29 Oct 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 684, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company)
20 Feb 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 684, 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, 684, Mining Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney
20 Feb 1916:	Embarked Sapper, 684, Mining Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney
20 Feb 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 684, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
30 Sep 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Sapper, 684, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), France - Gassed
20 May 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Sapper, 684, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), embarked Liverpool for Melbourne on board HT Nestor
16 Aug 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 684, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sapper Thomas Richardson (Service No:684) enlisted in the AIF in Seymour, Victoria on 29 October 1915 and was attached to 2nd Tunnelling Coy when he embarked with his Unit from Sydney on 20 February 1916 on board HMAT A38 Ulysses. Sapper Richardson served in France where he was hospitalised with Mumps in 1917 and WiA (Gassed) in 1918. Evacuated to hospital in England, Sapper Richardson embarked from Liverpool for Melbourne on 20 May 1919 on board HT Nestor and was attached to 2nd Tunnelling Coy at Discharge on 16 August 1919.

Tom was born in Aberfeldy, Victoria in 1894, second of ten children of Thomas Richardson Snr (b1861 in Rushworth, Victoria) and Catherine Carldina Marcapolo (b1871 in Jordan, Victoria). Thomas Snr was a Blacksmith when he and Catherine married in Aberfeldy in 1891. They settled in Aberfeldy where they raised their children and Thomas was a Blacksmith. Following Catherine's death in 1914, Thomas moved to Morwell where he worked as a Blacksmith and Labourer.

Tom was a Miner in Seymour, Victoria in 1915 when he enlisted in the AIF (giving his older sister Elizabeth as his NoK). Following his Discharge, in 1923 in Orbost, Victoria Tom married Bessie Finlay Stirling (b1895 in Orbost, Victoria). Tom and Bessie settled in Melbourne where they raised their family and Tom worked as an Engine Driver and Engineer. Tom died in 1954 and Bessie in 1972.

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