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1897 Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard born 16.11.1897 Rotunda Hospital Dublin. Child of Demosthenes (Snr) Thouard married to Bridget Agnes Reddy. Registration of births shows name altered to Thourd with the ‘a’ crossed out of Thouard. birth certificate copy from Dublin Shows father and mother as Thourd at 57 Holly Bank Road born 16.11.1897. Died 3 July 1991. Stanthorpe Hospital aged 93 years.

1906 Winifred (Peggy) Edith Alderson 1906 born Liverpool. She was to become the first wife of Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard.

1914 Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard left Salesian College, Farnborough, Haunts UK.

1914? Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard enlisted in England at age of 17 in Kings Royal Rifles. Served mainly in France where he was wounded by a bullet in the thigh during the Battle of the Somme and was taken a prisoner of war. Graham Thouard, recalls being told that the soldier beside him was dead, the Germans were walking through shooting any wounded soldiers who were still alive. This German came along and saw that he was still alive but kept walking instead of shooting him and he became a Prisoner of War? Viv Thouard says: Regarding war service, I know nothing of Joseph Antoine Thouard 3rd war service but there is plenty of information on the Somme battle - probably the worst loss of life in the history of warfare. Being in the Royal Kings Rifles meant it was front line stuff. Samuel John Fisk’s war history can be read in a 17-page document from the Australian War Memorial.

1916 Aug/Sept 1916 Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard was wounded by a bullet in the thigh in the Battle of The Somme and taken Prisoner of War. Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard enlisted in England at age of 17 in Kings Royal Rifles.

1919 Feb 27 Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard was released from British Army.

1921 Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard employed Norwich Union Fire Insurance, Friar Lane, Nottingham UK to 4 Feb 1926.

1923 June 29, Nottingham Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard received Insurance Pass Exam Results, UK.

1924 Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard and first wife Winifred (Peggy) Edith Alderson married 12 Nov 1924 Nottinghamshire. (or Carlton England on September 20, 1924, according to 1938 newspaper article of divorce).

1926 Feb 4, Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard Resigned Norwich Union Fire Insurance, Friar Lane, Nottingham UK.

1926 Joseph Antoine (Tony), Winifred and daughter Beryl Jacqueline (aged around 6 months) emigrated to Australia arriving in Melbourne in Feb 1926 (Beryl later changed her name by deed poll to Jacqueline Marie because she did not like the name Beryl).

1926 July 1926, Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard Resigned from Liverpool and London Insurance Company Sydney.

1926 July 7, Gov Insurance Office Sydney, Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard employed 7 July 1926 to 31 Jan 1928.

1928 Jan 2 (approx) Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard started work at Victorian Tourist Services Melbourne as a Coach Driver.

1929 Jan 2 Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard left Victorian Tourist Services Melbourne as a Coach Driver employed 12 months previously.

1929 Oct 1 Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard Employed Brisbane by Insurance Office of Aust.

1930 May 30 Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard Resigned - Reference Insurance Office of Australia employed from 1 Oct 1929 to 16 May 1930.

1939 Nov 13 to 1942 Oct 8 Citizen Military Forces Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard. QX43147 Sergeant with Australian Advanced Medical Stores. 1657 days in Australia and 247 days outside Australia. Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard Enlisted in Aust Army Medical Corp (Warwick, Lae PNG and Stanthorpe). He enlisted in Brisbane in 1939 in the Australian Army Medical Corps. Sergeant. He served at Medical Stores in Warwick, Stanthorpe and Lae in New Guinea. He later served at Concord Military Hospital and finally at 1 CAD Ammunition Depot at Wallangarra until 1962 when he retired. He worked as a civilian at Wallangarra Army Establishment until 1962. b883 QX43137 Thouard JOSEPH ANTHONY Service Number - QX43137 Date of birth - 16 Nov 1897 Place of birth - DUBLIN IRELAND Place of enlistment - BRISBANE QLD Next of Kin - Thouard DOROTHY.

1942 1939 Nov 13 to 1942 Oct 8 Citizen Military Forces Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard.

1942 Oct 9 to 1947 June 30 Australian Imperial Army service Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard.

1943 Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard Army service in Stanthorpe. He was at that time a soldier stationed at Stanthorpe at the Army Medical Stores at St. Joseph's and the Church of England Halls.

1944 Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard served at Concord Military Hospital.

1944 October 11 Joseph Antoine Thouard 3rd states on the declaration for marriage he lives at South Brisbane and is a Clerk.

1944 Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard (Thonard?) & Dorothy Grace Fisk (1915 - 1991) married 11 October 1944 at 108 Homebush Road, Strathfield Sydney in the Presbyterian Church. Who were the parents of Graham Anthony, Vivian John, Philip Joseph, Gregory Aidan

1944 Oct 11 Marriage Certificate signed J A Thonard, not Thouard, in presence of the Minister Victor Bell marriage to Dorothy Smith (nee Fisk).

1945 Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard Army service in Wallangarra Border town not far from Stanthorpe at Wallangarra 1.C.A.D Ammunition Depot until 1962 when he retired.

1947 Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard 1942 Oct 9 to 1947 June 30, Australian Imperial Army service.

1947 Joseph Anthony Thouard 1947 July 1 to 1948 Oct 7 Australian Interim Army.

1948 Joseph Anthony Thouard Oct 7, 1948, Discharged from Australian Interim Army.

1948 Joseph Anthony Thouard enlisted in the Australian Regular Army (Special Reserve) Brisbane at the age of 55.

1952 Joseph Anthony Thouard worked in the Army at Wallangarra as a Sergeant at 1 CAD (Central Ammunition Depot) or 5 COD (Central Ordinance Depot) up until 1952. He compulsorily retired age 55 and continued to work there as a civilian as a clerk in the Stores. He stayed there Monday to Friday in Quarters until around 1959 when he started travelling up and back each day on the Wallangarra Meatworks/School bus.

1962 Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard compulsory retirement as a civilian from Armed Services (age 65) 1 CAD Wallangarra.

1991 Joseph Antoine (Tony) Thouard born 16.11.1897. Died 3 July 1991. Stanthorpe Hospital aged 93 years. (a) Cerebrovascular accident (born) Dementia (c) Ischaemic. He had been a patient at the Stanthorpe Hospital since 25th April, 1988 (3 years) and Dorothy visited him nearly every day to feed him his lunch.