Thomas Robert Rae

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Thomas Robert Rae. Image courtesy University of Sydney Archives.



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

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