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Thomas Rowlands

Private

4th Machine Gun Battalion

Killed In Action (KIA) Killed In Action

Medals Earned

  • British War Medal
  • 1914-15 Star
  • Victory Medal

Tree Information

  • Species: Ulmus sp.
  • Planted By: Mr. Theo. Saunders
  • Plaque: 1158

Additional Info

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Biography

Thomas Grange Rowlands (SN 3479) from Ballarat East, attended the Humffray Street State School. He was a 21 year old, unmarried harness maker when he enlisted on July 13th 1915. Attached to the 14th Infantry Battalion he embarked from Melbourne in October on board the Nestor. After several months in Egypt he reached France in June 1916. In August, he was admitted to hospital for a month in Boulogne suffering from shell shock. In April 1917 he was again wounded in action and evacuated to England suffering multiple gun shot wounds. In November he was transferred to 4th Machine Gun Battalion with which he was posted to France in April 1918. He returned to England at the end of January where he died of broncho-pneumonia on February 8th 1919, three months after the signing of the Armistice. He is buried in Bristol Arnos Vale Cemetery, UK.

Location in Ballarat Avenue of Honour