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Thomas  Connery alias Murray

Name on Board T Connery
Name on Service
Records
Thomas   Connery alias Murray
Enlistment Age 22
Occupation Boilermaker
Place of Birth Williamstown, Vic
Next of Kin Mrs Emma Munday
Address 34 Albion St, Annandale, NSW
Marital Status S
Enlistment Date 17/08/1917
Service No. 3666
Enlistment Place Brisbane, Qld
Embarkation Place Sydney
Embarkation Date 31/10/1917
Embarkation Ship HMAT Euripides A14
Unit on Embarkation 52nd Australian Infantry Battalion
Date of Death 10/06/1918
Unit on Death 51st Australian Infantry Battalion
Rank on Death Private
Cause of Death KIA
Place of Wounding/
Death
Sailly-le-Sec, Somme France. Initially buried Military Cemetary Vaux
Cemetery or Memorial Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Additional Information Thomas Murray's service records note his true family name as Connery and that his mother, Mrs Annie Connery, lived at 126 Douglas Pde, Williamstown, Vic. Mrs Connery wrote to inform the military that her son had left the Navy without receiving his discharge and had enlisted in the military in the name of Murray.
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