Gill, Thomas Henry

Western FrontAll Campaigns

20 Jan

Written By Renegade Moss

SURNAME

Gill

NAME

Thomas Henry

PLACE OF BIRTH

Rockhampton

OCCUPATION

Railway Storeman

PLACE OF ENLISTMENT

Rockhampton

DATE OF ENLISTMENT

7-02-16

NEXT OF KIN

Initially, mother Jane Gill, then wife Marjorie Gill.

LINK TO DOUGLAS SHIRE

Shire Honour Board lists Gill, T. The soldier recorded here,Thomas Gill, is the nearest of those in National Records but he has no identified link to Douglas district.

REGIMENT 1

15th Battalion AIF

REGIMENT 2

Special units

RANK

Private

CAMPAIGN 1

Western Front

OTHER INFORMATION

Base Depot Reinforcements to 15th Battalion at Etaples. Returned on the Ceramic. Awarded the 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.

STORY OUTLINE

Thomas Henry Gill is the most likely of all with name T Gill in the National Archives to have had some association with Douglas Shire (but highly speculative; possibly coming soon after returning to Australia with his British bride to work on the Mossman - Port Douglas railway?).

He was born in Rockhampton, became a railway storeman (his father was a loco inspector) and enlisted at Rockhampton at age 25.

Being a storeman he was assigned for the duration of the war to Base Depot duties with the 15th Battalion.

For most of the war, his base was at Etaples. While overseas he married Marjorie Mitchell from York, and returned to Australia in August 1919.

SERVICE NO

5680