Thanks to Gary Mitchell for permission to share this post.
8 November 2021
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery, Honour and Dignity restored.
80 years ago today, on the Saturday afternoon of the 8th November 1941 (7 funerals on this day), Private Thomas Wilson, 23rd Battalion (Reg No-4524), butcher from Auburn, New South Wales and Normanhurst, N.S.W. and Mayfield, N.S.W. and Belmont, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 70. GENERAL-28. 16.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134072294 - funeral notice states service.
Born at Kilmarnock, Scotland about 1871 to ? and ? Wilson, Thomas enlisted November 1915 at Melbourne (Broadmeadows), Victoria.
Admitted to hospital 12.11.1916 (influenza).
Thomas returned home February 1918 (defective eyesight and age), being discharged on the 5th June 1918.
I located Thomas resting in an unmarked grave, now long forgotten, so August 2019 I placed a cross adorned with poppies on the gravesite, taken a photo of the grave and uploaded the photo onto the Northern Cemetery website as a permanent record of his service.
I submitted an application to DVA October 2020 asking for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque, curbing and marble chip, and this was accepted June 2021, completed September 2021.
Also served Boer War.
Many thanks to Phil Winney and members of Merewether - Hamilton - Adamstown RSL sub-Branch for the purchase of death certificate.
Lest We Forget.
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