DUMFRIES - SCOTLAND
St. Michaels Church War Memorial & War Memorial
St. Michaels Church War Memorial & War Memorial
Corporal James FLEMING 3520
Born: Dumfries, Scotland Enlisted: 28-9-1915, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia Occupation prior to Enlistment: Miner 51st Battalion Australian Infantry Departed Australia 17-1-1916 Killed in Action 16-8-1916 aged 34years Son of Joseph and Annie Fleming, of 109, English St., Dumfries, Scotland Honoured: Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 152 |
Sapper Thomas Richardson 17792
Born: Tanniesmas, Scotland
Enlisted: 20-9-1916, Melbourne, Victoria
Occupation prior to Enlistment: Carpenter
11th Field Company Australian Engineers
Departed Australia 10-5-1917
Died 10-10-1918, France aged 39years
Son of John and Agnes Richardson, of 106, St. Michael St., Dumfries.
Resting: Tincourt New British Cemetery, Tincourt, Picardie, France
Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 24
Born: Tanniesmas, Scotland
Enlisted: 20-9-1916, Melbourne, Victoria
Occupation prior to Enlistment: Carpenter
11th Field Company Australian Engineers
Departed Australia 10-5-1917
Died 10-10-1918, France aged 39years
Son of John and Agnes Richardson, of 106, St. Michael St., Dumfries.
Resting: Tincourt New British Cemetery, Tincourt, Picardie, France
Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 24
Private Thomas James THOMSON 1115
Born: Dumfries, Scotland Enlisted: 9-9-1914, Randwick, New South Wales Occupation prior to Enlistment: Joiner 4th Battalion Australian Infantry Died of Wounds 11-5-1915 aged 26years Son of John and Mary Thomson, of Rae St., Dumfries, Scotland. Resting: Chatby Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 42 |
Dumfries & Galloway Standard 26-5-1915
AUSTRALIAN DUMFRIESIAN KILLED
Mr. John Thomson, missionary to the blind in Dumfries, has received intimation from the Agent-General of the Dominion of Australia, that his youngest son, Private Thomas James Thomson, who was serving in the 4th Battalion Australian Imperial Forces, died on the 14th inst. from wounds received in action at the Dardanelles. The deceased soldier served his apprenticeship as a joiner with Bailie Smart, Dumfries, but over three years ago he went out to New South Wales, and had been engaged in dairying in the bush country several hundred miles from Sydney. When the war broke out he proceeded to Sydney and enlisted, and left the colony in September with the first Contingent. They were taken to Egypt, and remained there until several weeks ago, when they were transferred to the Dardanelles. They greatly distinguished themselves in the heavy fighting in the Gallipoli Peninsula. Private Thomson, who was 26years of age, displayed a very patriotic and heroic spirit. When informed that his name was on the church roll of Honour and that of the Dumfries academy, he wrote home that they seemed to be making too much of the soldiers, and added: A man has only to die once; and I would rather die on the field for my country and a good cause than die a natural death.
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