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T Overend

Commemorated at
Given name
Thomas Edward
Family name
Overend
Service number
2456
Additional information
Gender
M
Rank (legacy)
Private
Unit at embarkation
56 Battalion
Service (legacy)
Army
Conflicts
World War 1
Campaign (legacy)
Western Front
Veteran Notes/Bio

 

1.Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW1 ROH (1917) and Bygone Queanbeyan.

2. “MAPPING ANZACS”:Service Number: 2456;POB: Cootamundra, NSW; POE: Goulburn,NSW; NOK:Wife: Mrs Ada Winifred Overend, Goldsmith Street, Goulburn, NSW.

3. AWM Embarkation Roll: Rank: Private ;Unit:56 Infantry Battalion - 2 to 9 Reinforcements (April 1916 - January 1917)  ; Age:39; Occupation: Miner ;DOE: 25.03.1916 ; Embarked: 30.09.1916.Sydney.HMAT Aeneas.A60.

4. AWM Nominal Roll: Rank:Private ;Unit:56 Battalion;      DOE:25.03.1916; RTA:27.08.1917. Discharged  MUF (Heart condition) 23.11.1917.

5. Stephenson: Only listed in context of Mary Overend ,Mothe's death 26.12.1978. Son T.E. Born 1879.

6.Served Boer War: See: BUNGENDORE & DISTRICT WAR MEMORIAL - SOUTH AFRICAN (BOER) WAR 1899-1902 ROLL OF HONOUR .Peter Hugonnet 2011.ISBN: 978-0-646-55612-3

7.See  AWM Photograph P09678.001:Group portrait of Bungendore servicemen in the 55th and 56th Battalions noted below at Cyril Smith 2485 and comments by PJH 03.04.15.

8. Queanbeyan Age 28 January 1916 reported on the arrival of the Men from Snowy River Recruitment March in Bungendore on the 24th.The  report stated that a number of local men gave their names as potential recruits but did not join the March at that time.Thomas Overand susequently enlisted on 25.03.1916 at Goulburn.

9. Last updated September 2015.

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