Thomas Hyde
Name Thomas Hyde
Number Lance Corporal 692
Battalion 31st Battalion
Place of Birth Colac
Next of Kin Mr. T Hyde of Leongatha
Date and place of enlistment Melbourne 1/7/1915
Physical details on enlistment Age 21 years 6 months 5’9”, 10 stone 7 pounds, brown eyes black hair.
Religion Presbyterian
Occupation Farmer
Date and place of death
He was killed in action on 2/11/1917 at Passchendaele
Location of grave or memorial
He was buried at Tyne Cot Cemetery
Relationship to Woorayl Shire
He was from the Koorooman East area
Military History
- He attended Koorooman East State School
- He is on the Koorooman East Honour Roll
- 1/7/17 He enlisted in Melbourne
- 9/11/15 He embarked Melbourne on HMAT Wandilla
- 7/12/15 He arrived at Suez
- 19/6/16 He embarked Alexandria
- 25/6/16 He disembarked Marseilles
- 10/8/16 He was wounded in action. He had a gun shot wound to the left arm and shoulder and was admitted to hospital
- 13/8/16 He was taken to Boulogne
- 15/8/16 He went to England to Whrancliff War Hospital Middlesex Rd Sheffield
- 23/12/16 He returned to his unit the 31st Battalion
- 12/10/17 He became a Lance Corporal
- 2/11/17 He was killed in action
- He was buried at Tynecot near Passchendale
- His mother Ellen was denied a pension as she was not a dependent
- 27/3/1922 A letter related to the words to go on his headstone was sent to his family.
- His father received his medals, plaque and scroll
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