Thomas Robert Rae
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| + | The record of Thomas Robert Rae SN 2424 tells very little about his service during World War One. The small amount of information briefly documents that he was in Egypt, went to France, spent time on furlough in England and on his return five months later was killed in action on 30 October 1917. | ||
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| + | A letter dated 6 February 1918 from his mother to the Sydney University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in Mining and Metallurgy in 1905, reiterates his own words regarding his time at the Western Front. | ||
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| + | ::Our division went into action at Fromelles 10th July 1916. We lost in that stint 69 PC in casualties. We stayed there for 3 months and in August we went to the Somme. | ||
| + | ::On Nov 5th we were again in a stunt near High Wood and immediately afterwards we came out for a spell to a little village called Cardonette about 4 miles from Amiens, | ||
| + | ::there we went to a place called Waterlot Farm on the edge of the renowned Delville Wood. We went to Flers and Goudecourt [sic] in March, | ||
| + | ::the Australians got to Bapaume on the 17th of March 1917 there we followed up the Infantry through Bapaume, Fremicourt, Le Boucherie and Beau Metz. | ||
| + | ::This is where I left to go back to camp just outside Bapaume then came our leave. | ||
Revision as of 01:00, 14 September 2018
RAE, Thomas Robert
Service no: 2424 [1]
Place of birth: Orange, 18 January 1880
Address: Glenbrae, Provincial Road, Lindfield
Occupation: Mining engineer
Next of kin: Margaret Rae (mother), Glenbrae, Provincial Road, Lindfield
Date of enlistment: 30 August 1915
Place of enlistment: Sydney
Age at enlistment: 35
Fate: Embarked HMAT RMS Mooltan, Sydney, 11 December 1915. Taken on strength 14th Field Company Engineers, Tel-el-Kebir 18 March 1916. Embarked Kinfauns Castle, Alexandria, to join the British Expeditionary Force, 18 June 1916. Disembarked, Marseilles, 29 June 1916. Proceeded to England on furlough, 16 April 1917. Rejoined unit from furlough, 1 May 1917. Killed in action Westhoek, Zonnebeke Road, Ypres, Belgium, 30 October 1917.
Date of death: 30 October 1917
The record of Thomas Robert Rae SN 2424 tells very little about his service during World War One. The small amount of information briefly documents that he was in Egypt, went to France, spent time on furlough in England and on his return five months later was killed in action on 30 October 1917.
A letter dated 6 February 1918 from his mother to the Sydney University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in Mining and Metallurgy in 1905, reiterates his own words regarding his time at the Western Front.
- Our division went into action at Fromelles 10th July 1916. We lost in that stint 69 PC in casualties. We stayed there for 3 months and in August we went to the Somme.
- On Nov 5th we were again in a stunt near High Wood and immediately afterwards we came out for a spell to a little village called Cardonette about 4 miles from Amiens,
- there we went to a place called Waterlot Farm on the edge of the renowned Delville Wood. We went to Flers and Goudecourt [sic] in March,
- the Australians got to Bapaume on the 17th of March 1917 there we followed up the Infantry through Bapaume, Fremicourt, Le Boucherie and Beau Metz.
- This is where I left to go back to camp just outside Bapaume then came our leave.
