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Thomas Pascoe STACK

Regimental number868
Place of birthGrafton, New South Wales
ReligionRoman Catholic
OccupationTimber hewer
AddressManjinup PO, Manjinup, Western Australia
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation38
Height5' 11"
Weight154 lbs
Next of kinSister, Margaret Ellen Lee, Chatsworth, Clarence River, New South Wales
Previous military serviceServed in the 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, South Africa; time expired.
Enlistment date12 May 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll7 May 1915
Place of enlistmentBridgetown, Western Australia
Rank on enlistmentCorporal
Unit name32nd Battalion, C Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/49/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A2 Geelong on 18 November 1915
Rank from Nominal RollSergeant
Unit from Nominal Roll32nd Battalion
FateReturned to Australia 18 October 1917
Discharge date3 January 1918
Other details

War service: Egypt, Western Front

Disembarked Suez, 18 December 1915.

Found guilty, 16 May 1916, of failing to have men in his tent at Reveille: reprimanded.

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 17 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 23 June 1916.

On Command, School of Instruction, Morbecque, 6 July 1916.

Transferred to 1st Light trench Mortar Battery, 26 July 1916.

Wounded in action, Fromelles, 20 July 1916 (shrapnel wound, left hand), and admitted to 8th Field Ambulance; discharged to duty from 5th Division Rest Station, 29 July 1916.

Taken on strength, 8th Light Trench Mortar Battery, 29 July 1916.

Admitted to No 2 [Highland Division?] Field Ambulance, 23 September 1916, and transferred to 8th Casualty Clearing Station; to 32nd Stationary Hospital, Wimereux, 24 September 1916 (influenza); to 1st Convalescent Camp, 29 September 1916; to Base Details, Etaples, 7 October 1916.

Transferred to 32nd Bn, 15 October 1916.

Promoted Sergeant, 19 October 1916.

Admitted 21st Casualty Clearing Station, 26 November 1916; transferred to 13th General Hospital, Boulogne, 30 November 1916 (trench foot); to England, 2 December 1916; discharged from No 3 Auxiliary Hospital, Dartford, on furlough, 31 January 1917, to report to No 1 Command Depot, Perham Downs, 15 February 1917.

Admitted to No 2 Auxiliary Hospital, Southall, 6 February 1917 (bronchitis); transferred to Metropolitan Asylum Board, 18 March 1917; to 2nd Auxiliary Hospital, Southall, 18 March 1917 (mumps); discharged to No 2 Command Depot, Weymouth, 17 May 1917 (functional neurosis).

Commenced return to Australia on board HT 'Beltana', 18 October 1917; disembarked Perth; discharged (medically unfit), Perth, 3 January 1918.

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Date of death13 September 1939
SourcesNAA: B2455, STACK Thomas Pascoe

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