THRUPP, William Leslie
| Service Number: | 633 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 September 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 9th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Mingelo, New South Wales, Australia, 15 October 1893 |
| Home Town: | Roma, Maranoa, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Engine Cleaner (QGR) |
| Died: | Heart Disease, Oakey, Queensland, Australia, 5 November 1973, aged 80 years |
| Cemetery: |
Toowoomba Garden of Remembrance | Cemetery & Crematorium Queensland Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: | Toowoomba Queensland Railways Toowoomba Employees Roll of Honour, Town of Roma and Shire of Bungil WW1 Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 633, 9th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 24 Sep 1914: | Involvement Private, 633, 9th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Omrah embarkation_ship_number: A5 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Sep 1914: | Embarked Private, 633, 9th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Omrah, Brisbane | |
| 10 Jun 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 633, embarked Suez for Melbourne on board HT Itonus | |
| 9 Aug 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 633, 9th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lance Corporal William Leslie Thrupp (Service No:633) enlisted in the AIF in Roma QLD on 7 September 1914, and was a Lance Corporal attached to 9th Infantry Battalion on 24 September 1914 when he embarked with his Unit from Brisbane QLD for Egypt on board Transport A5 SS Omrah. Lance Corporal Thrupp (having been hospitalised in Cairo with Influenza in December 1914) landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, remaining there until the evacuation at Anzac. Hospitalised in Malta in 1916, Lance Corporal Thrupp embarked from Suez for Melbourne on 10 June 1916 on board HT Itonus, and was attached to 9th Infantry Battalion at Discharge in Brisbane on 9 August 1916 (Medically Unfit).
Bill was born in Mingelo via Peak Hill, NSW in 1893, third of seven children of Alfred Thrupp (b1868 in Bendigo, Victoria) and his first wife Sarah Jane Doyle (b1865 in Burrowa, NSW). Alfred (a Labourer) and Sarah married in Parkes in 1889, and lived there before moving in 1897 to Surat QLD, where they raised their family and Alfred was a Labourer. Following Sarah's death in 1911, ALfred remarried in 1914 at Logan Village, QLD to Isabella Kate Jackson (b1881 in Redbank, QLD) - Isabella was a Fruitere with a young daughter. Alfred and Isabella had another two children, and lived at Clifton on the Darling Downs and Kilcoy, where Alfred worked as a Labourer and Council Overseer.
Bill worked with QGR all his working life - starting as an Engine Cleaner in Roma. Following his Discharge from the Army, Bill was in Roma in 1917 when he married Florence Marie Rooker (b1896 at Timms' Farm via Roma, QLD). Bill and Florence settled in Roma, where they raised their family and Bill was an Engine Fireman and Locomotive Driver with QGR. In the early 1940s they moved to Oakey on the Darling Downs. Following Bill's death in 1973, Florence wrote to the Army applying for the War Widows' Pension (NAA; 1973), stating '.... he refused to apply for a War Pension. Being always a proud man, he preferred to return to employment with Queensland Government Railways, which he served until his retirement at age 66'. Florence died in 1987.
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