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Thomas Francis Martin

Name on Board T F Martin
Name on Service
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Thomas Francis  Martin
Enlistment Age 27
Occupation Journalist
Place of Birth Williamstown, Vic
Next of Kin Thomas and Mary Martin
Address Rubydell', 15 Speight St, Newport, Vic
Marital Status S
Enlistment Date 4/10/1916
Service No. 32337
Enlistment Place Melbourne, Vic
Embarkation Place Melbourne
Embarkation Date 14/02/1917
Embarkation Ship RMS Osterley
Unit on Embarkation 14th Australian Field Artillery Brigade
Date of Death 25/07/1918
Unit on Death 8th Australian Field Artillery Brigade
Rank on Death Gunner
Cause of Death KIA
Place of Wounding/
Death
Corbie, France (Exhumed from Vaur-sur-Somme Communal Cemetery and reinterred)
Cemetery or Memorial Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Additional Information Thomas Martin attended St Joseph's Roman Catholic School, Newport, Vic
Additional References Williamstown Chronicle, Saturday 23 September 1916, p3
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