1st Australian Auxillery Motor Transport Company
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Thomas James Collier (SN 13090) born at Bungaree, was a married 38 year old motor mechanic when he enlisted in Ballarat on April 24th 1916. Assigned to the 39th Infantry Battalion he embarked from Melbourne aboard the Persic on December 22nd. In June he crossed to France attached to the 1st Australian Auxiliary Mechanical Transport Company. In January 1918 he was hospitalised in France suffering from bronchitis which persisted until he was transferred to England. He was returned home on the Suevic and reached Melbourne on June 7th 1918. He was discharged in July as ‘medically unfit – chronic bronchitis’.
