George Joseph Thew
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THEW, George Joseph
Service no: 1388 [1]
Place of birth: Burwood
Address: c/- Mrs J.E. Johnson, Post Office, Manildra
Occupation: Packer
Next of kin: Jane Elizabeth Farr (formerly Thew) (mother), Post Office, Manildra, later Gobolion Street, Wellington
Date of enlistment: 1 September 1914
Place of enlistment: Sydney
Age at enlistment: 21
Fate: Embarked HMAT A14 Euripides Sydney 20 October 1914. Joined Mediterranean Expeditionary Force 5 April 1915. Reported missing in action Gallipoli 7-12 August 1915. Declared killed in action at Gallipoli, Turkey following a court hearing dated 5 June 1916.
Date of death: 7 August 1915
Buried: Between Lone Pine and Brown’s Dip, Gallipoli, Turkey
Joseph George Thew was born in Burwood in 1890. He was the first child born to George J Thew and his wife, Jane Elizabeth Growder.
When he enlisted in Sydney in September 1914 Joseph was living in Manildra, where he worked as a packer.
Joseph embarked for Egypt in October 1914, a private in the 3rd Battalion. Private Thew was killed in action in the Battle of Lone Pine at Gallipoli on 7 August 1915.