Thomas PICKERING

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PICKERING, Thomas

Service Number:	4766
Enlisted:	1 October 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Fyan's Creek via Stawell, Victoria., date not yet discovered
Home Town:	Fyans Creek, Northern Grampians, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Stawell, Victoria, 7 July 1972, cause of death not yet discovered, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Stawell Pleasant Creek Cemetery, Victoria, Australia https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/274087085/thomas-pickering
Memorials:	Fyans Creek State School Roll of Honor, Halls Gap Memorial Gates

World War 1 Service

1 Oct 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4766, Depot Battalion (AIF)
7 Mar 1916:	Involvement Private, 4766, 22nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: ''
7 Mar 1916:	Embarked Private, 4766, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne
20 May 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4766, 2nd Machine Gun Battalion, embarked England for Melbourne on board HT Nestor
20 Nov 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4766, 2nd Machine Gun Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Eldest of the three brothers (Thomas, Arnold and Albert) who served in the Army, Private Thomas Pickering (Service No:4766) enlisted in the AIF on 1 October 1915 and was attached to 23rd and 19th Depot Battalions. On 7 March 1916 Private Pickering was attached to 22nd Infantry Battalion when he embarked with his Unit from Melbourne on board HMAT A18 Wiltshire for service on the Western Front. Private Pickering transferred to 2nd Machine Gun Battalion on 20 March 1918 in France, and embarked from England for Melbourne on 20 May 1919 on board HT Nestor. Private Pickering was attached to 2nd Machine Gun Battalion at Discharge on 20 November 1919. His only son Maxwell Thomas Pickering (Private; Service No:VX501856) served in the AIF post WWII (1946 - 1948).

Thomas was born at Fyan's Creek via Stawell, Victoria in 1893, second of eleven children of Joshua (Joss) Charles Pickering (b1858 in Stawell, Victoria) and his second wife Agnes Eliza Thompson (b1872 in Stawell, Victoria). Joss (a Widower with four children) and Agnes married in 1899 in Stawell, and settled in the Stawell district (Fyan's Creek and Boroka) where they raised their family and Joss was a Farmer.

Thomas was a Labourer at Fyan's Creek via Stawell in 1915 when he enlisted in the AIF. Following his Discharge, Thomas returned to Fyan's Creek and worked as a Labourer. In 1923 in Stawell he married Myrtle Davenport Woolley (b1903 in Stawell, Victoria). The couple lived at Fyan's Creek before settling in Stawell, where they raised their family and Thomas worked as a Labourer. Thomas died in 1972 and Myrtle died in 1991.

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