Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 22nd Machine Gun Company
Home Town: Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland
Died: Died of wounds, France, 25 April 1917, age not yet discovered
Cemetery: Grevillers British Cemetery
Grevillers British Cemetery, Grevillers, Picardie, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
His Service Number is Private/320; He served in the 22nd Coy Australian Machine Gun Corps, AIF. He was born at Clayton, Manchester, England in July 1889. He enlisted at Fortitude Valley/Brisbane, Queensland in March 1916. He embarked from Melbourne for Plymouth per the H.M.A.T. "Commonwealth," on the 19th of September 1916. He proceeded from Folkestone to Etaples in France on the 17th of March 1917. He fought on the Western Front until he received shrapnel wounds to the Head, legs, right thigh with a fractured tibia and fibula on the 25th of April 1917. He died of his wounds the same day aged 27 years. Thomas Mawdsley is the son of James and Ann Mawdsley, of Taunton Bank, Ashton-under-Lyne, England. (Bio by kc.byrne)
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 22nd Machine Gun Company
Home Town: Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland
Died: Died of wounds, France, 25 April 1917, age not yet discovered
Cemetery: Grevillers British Cemetery
Grevillers British Cemetery, Grevillers, Picardie, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
His Service Number is Private/320; He served in the 22nd Coy Australian Machine Gun Corps, AIF. He was born at Clayton, Manchester, England in July 1889. He enlisted at Fortitude Valley/Brisbane, Queensland in March 1916. He embarked from Melbourne for Plymouth per the H.M.A.T. "Commonwealth," on the 19th of September 1916. He proceeded from Folkestone to Etaples in France on the 17th of March 1917. He fought on the Western Front until he received shrapnel wounds to the Head, legs, right thigh with a fractured tibia and fibula on the 25th of April 1917. He died of his wounds the same day aged 27 years. Thomas Mawdsley is the son of James and Ann Mawdsley, of Taunton Bank, Ashton-under-Lyne, England. (Bio by kc.byrne)
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