WOOTTON, Thomas
Service Number: | 416 |
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Enlisted: | 16 October 1914 |
Last Rank: | Sergeant |
Last Unit: | 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
Born: | Byford, Herefordshire, England, 1892 |
Home Town: | Claremont, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Dairyman |
Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 26 September 1917 |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 7 - 17 - 23 - 25 - 27 - 29 - 31., Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
16 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
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26 Sep 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 416, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 26 and the son of John and Frances Wootton; husband of Mrs. M. L. Wootton, of Dalkeith Park, Dalkeith, Scotland.
Births Jun 1892 Wootton Thomas Weobly 6a 516.
His brother, Private William Wootton, Regimental number
7606, Australian Infantry 14th Battalion was Killed in Action in France aged 24 on Friday 31 May 1918.
The brothers are honoured in Herefordshire on the BYFORD & MANSEL GAMAGE war memorial.