SUTHERS, Thomas
| Service Number: | 335 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse |
| Born: | Gympie, Queensland, Australia, 4 April 1883 |
| Home Town: | Gympie, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Salisbury, Rhodesia, 4 November 1926, aged 43 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Gympie Cemetery, Qld Plot- MS-2-142 (Cenotaph) |
| Memorials: | Charters Towers Boer War Memorial Kiosk |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 335, 7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse | |
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| 19 May 1902: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 335, 7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 530 notes 7th BACH embarked at Pinkenba 19 May 1902 aboard Custodian arriving Durban 22 Jun 1902 after peace had been declared. | |
| 9 Aug 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 335, 7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 530 notes 7th BACH embarked at Durban 28 Jun 1902 aboard Manchester Merchant returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 2 Aug 1902, disbanded 9 Aug 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
His older brother Herbert Suthers also served in the Boer War, Private S.N. 173, 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry.
Thomas Suthers enlisted on 3 May 1902 with the 7th BACH and on his Attestation Paper its was noted that; he was born at Gympie and was 21 years old; he was single and a miner; and his N.O.K. was his mother Emmie Suthers, Red Hill, Gympie. He embarked with the battalion from Brisbane on 19 May 1902 arriving at Durban on 22 Jun 1902 after peace had been declared. After just 6 days the battalion embarked from Durban on 28 Jun 1902 returning to Brisbane where they were discharged on 9 Aug 1902.
A biography has been placed on online genealogy site FamilySearch. It indicates at some point he returned to South Africa where he married Susan Annie Clark on 3 Jan 1916 at Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. He passed on 4 Nov 1926 at Harari, Salisbury, Mashonaland, Southern Rhodesia.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 537; National Archives Australia- Boer War Dossier; Biography on online genealogy site FamilySearch accessed 31/12/2025 at https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/about/KJPL-T1W).
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