JARRETT, Thomas James
| Service Number: | 1781 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Grafton, New South Wales, Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Nana Glen, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Porter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 28 October 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Nana Glen St Peter's Anglican Church Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 1781, Light Trench Mortar Batteries, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
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| 2 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 1781, Light Trench Mortar Batteries, HMAT Orsova, Sydney | |
| 28 Oct 1917: | Involvement Private, 1781, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1781 awm_unit: 3 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-28 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Thomas James JARRETT (Service Number 1781) was born in Grafton in 1894.
He gave his ‘trade or calling’ as ‘Railway Porter’ when he enlisted in the AIF in Sydney in November 1916.
He embarked from Sydney aboard SS ‘Orsova’ in December 1916. He landed in England in February 1917. Initially training with a Light Trench Mortar Battery, he was transferred to the 3rd Battalion infantry in August and sent to France with them in October. He was ‘Taken on strength’ in Belgium on 20th October.
He was killed in action on 28th October 1917.
Private T.B. Hennings reported:
‘He was in B Co and on this date he was working in a fatigue party on the light railway at Westhoek Ridge at about three o’clock in the afternoon, when a shell fell and he was killed instantly, struck in the neck and the jugular vein severed. I went up to him but he was quite dead. We buried him in a small Mil. Cem beside the Kit-Kat Pill-box, and the grave was marked by a plain wooden cross which we made ourselves.’
This grave could not be located after the war and Jarrett is remembered with honour on the Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Boar.