24th Infantry Battalion
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Thomas Henry Batie (SN 1007) born in Ballarat, was a 21 year old tent maker when he enlisted at Ballarat on March 31st 1915. He embarked aboard the Euripides on May 8th and sailed to Egypt before moving to France in March 1916 to serve with the 24th Infantry Battalion. He spent much of mid-1916 in hospital suffering from influenza after which a heart disorder was diagnosed. He returned to Australia aboard the Karoola and was discharged on June 30th 1917 ‘medically unfit, disorderly action of the heart’.
Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as Thomas H. Battie.
