STEWART, Thomas
| Service Number: | 6833 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 April 1917, 3 years 13th Infantry |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 18th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Belford, New South Wales, Australia, 6 January 1896 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Adamstown, New South Wales, Australia, 11 July 1960, aged 64 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 4-28. 13. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Apr 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6833, 18th Infantry Battalion, 3 years 13th Infantry | |
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| 16 Jun 1917: | Involvement Private, 6833, 18th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Jun 1917: | Embarked Private, 6833, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney | |
| 26 Nov 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6833, 18th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, medically unfit (meningitis on voyage to Europe) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Enlisted to serve in The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
63 years ago today, on the 13th July 1960, Private Thomas Stewart, 18th Battalion (Reg No-6833), clerk from 9 Hunter Street, Newcastle, New South Wales and 26 Thomas Street, Adamstown, N.S.W. (1941), father of five (Esme, Nita, Dorothy, Ivy, Lola), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 64. METHODIST 4-28. 13.
Born at Belford, New South Wales on the 6th January 1896 to William and Mary Ann Stewart of Belford, N.S.W.; husband of Violet May Stewart nee Wheatley (married 1918, West Maitland, N.S.W., died 7.1.1974, age 74, sleeping here), Thomas enlisted on the 11th April 1917 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A72 Beltana on the 16th June 1917.
Disembarked Fremantle, Western Australia on the 25th June 1917 (cerebrospinal meningitis).
Thomas returned home on the 13th November 1917, being discharged medically unfit on the 26th November 1917.
Nothing located on Trove regarding enlistment, returning home, etc.
Service record indicates no War Medals were granted (did not proceed beyond 5th Military District).
Mr. Stewart’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Thomas’s gravesite in remembrance of his short service for God, King & Country.
Service record states DECEASED, 11.7.1960 (CWGC).
Officially commemorated – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html...
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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