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8th LHR, AIF, Roll of Honour, Thomas Spencer Howard Topic: AIF - 3B - 8 LHR
8th LHR, AIF
8th Australian Light Horse Regiment
Roll of Honour
Thomas Spencer Howard
Thomas Spencer Howard's name on the Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial
Thomas Spencer Howard
Rank: Lieutenant [Lt]
Unit: 8th Light Horse Regiment
Service: Army
Conflict: 1914-1918
Date of death: 7 August 1915
Cause of death: Killed in action
Cemetery or memorial details: Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey
War Grave Register notes: HOWARD, Lt. Thomas Spencer. 8th Light Horse Regt. Killed in action 7th Aug., 1915. Son of George Thomas Howard, M.D., and Matilda Howard, of 4, Collins St., Melbourne. 5.
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
A brief military biography of Thomas Spencer Howardfrom The AIF Project:
Place of birth
North Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria
School
Carlton College, Melbourne, Victoria
Religion
Church of England
Occupation
Grain salesman
Address
Corner of Pigdon and Wilson Streets, North Carlton, Victoria
Marital status
Single
Age at embarkation
24
Next of kin
Father, Dr G Howard, corner of Pigdon and Wilson Streets, North Carlton, Victoria
Previous military service
29th Light Horse; Lieut of 29th Light Horse (Victorian) before the war.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board Transport A16 Star of Victoria on 25 February 1915
Rank from Nominal Roll
Lieutenant
Unit from Nominal Roll
8th Light Horse Regiment
Other details from Roll of Honour Circular
8th and 10th Light Horse, 7th August, 1915.
Fate
Killed in Action 7 August 1915
Place of death or wounding
Gallipoli, Turkey
Age at death
25
Place of burial
No known grave
Commemoration details
The Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 5), Gallipoli, Turkey
The Lone Pine Memorial, situated in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac, is the main Australian Memorial on Gallipoli, and one of four memorials to men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Designed by Sir John Burnet, the principal architect of the Gallipoli cemeteries, it is a thick tapering pylon 14.3 metres high on a square base 12.98 metres wide. It is constructed from limestone mined at Ilgardere in Turkey.
The Memorial commemorates the 3268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were buried at sea after evacuation through wounds or disease. The names of New Zealanders commemorated are inscribed on stone panels mounted on the south and north sides of the pylon, while those of the Australians are listed on a long wall of panels in front of the pylon and to either side. Names are arranged by unit and rank.
The Memorial stands over the centre of the Turkish trenches and tunnels which were the scene of heavy fighting during the August offensive. Most cemeteries on Gallipoli contain relatively few marked graves, and the majority of Australians killed on Gallipoli are commemorated here.
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial
6
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records
Parents: George and Matilda HOWARD, 4 Collins Street, Melbourne
Family/military connections
Cousin: Lindsay Bailey, killed at Passchendaele, Belgium in 1917
Other details
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Diaries of AIF Servicemen, Bert Schramm, 7 August 1918 Topic: Diary - Schramm
Diaries of AIF Servicemen
Bert Schramm
7 August 1918
Bert Schramm
2823 Private Herbert Leslie SCHRAMM, a 22 year old Farmer from Whites River, South Australia. He enlisted on 17 February 1916; and at the conclusion of the war Returned to Australia, 10 July 1919.
During part of the course of his military service with the AIF, Bert Schramm kept a diary of his life. Bert was not a man of letters so this diary was produced with great effort on his behalf. Bert made a promise to his sweetheart, Lucy Solley, that he would do so after he received the blank pocket notebook wherein these entries are found. As a Brigade Scout since September 1918, he took a lead part in the September Offensive by the Allied forces in Palestine. Bert's diary entries are placed alongside those of the 9th Light Horse Regiment to which he belonged and to the 3rd Light Horse Brigade to which the 9th LHR was attached. On this basis we can follow Bert in the context of his formation.
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Nominal Roll, AWM133, Nominal Roll of Australian Imperial Force who left Australia for service abroad, 1914-1918 War.
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