STAGOLL, Thomas Ernest
| Service Number: | 2257 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 February 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 7th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Longford, Tasmania, Australia, 27 July 1886 |
| Home Town: | Longford, Northern Midlands, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Longford State School, Tasmania, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in action, France, 18 August 1916, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Longford War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2257, 7th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 17 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 2257, 7th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 2257, 7th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Thomas Ernest Stagoll was one of the three sons of Mrs. Elizabeth Stagoll, of Scottsdale, Tasmania, who all enlisted in the AIF during the Great War. Only one returned to Tasmania.
On being questioned as to boys’ father was alive, Mrs. Stagoll stated “I have not heard from him in twenty-four years.”
Thomas’s younger brother, 3346 Lce. Cpl. Walter William Stagoll 12th Battalion AIF, was later killed in action in France on 23 August 1918, aged 23.
Thomas enlisted in Victoria and was a Gallipoli veteran, having arrived there during early August 1915, with the 7th Battalion. He was evacuated with enteric over a month later.
He fought at Pozieres in France and was killed in action on the 18 August 1916, and though there were many witnesses to his death in his Red Cross Wounded and Missing file, several stated that there was no possibility of being able to bury him due to incessant shell and machine gun fire for many days at the place where his body lay.
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