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Unit |
4th
Battalion, Headquarters |
Rank |
Lieutenant Colonel |
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Date of Enlistment |
15 August 1914 |
Service no. |
- |
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Date of Death |
26 April 1915 |
Place of Death |
400
Plateau |
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Age |
50 |
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Cemetery |
4th Battalion Parade Ground |
Details |
A. 11. |
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Epitaph |
None |
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Next of Kin |
(Brother)
THOMPSON I W O |
Address |
Manilla
NSW |
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Parents |
Astley J
and Udea Thompson |
Address |
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Date of Birth |
3 January
1865 |
Place of birth |
Wales,
Ynys House, Eglwysilan, Pontypridd, Glamorganshire |
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General |
Colonel Onslow Thompson and others who
were with him, their line having gone and no instructions having been
received, decided to return to the Australian lines. They endeavoured
to reach them, not by direct retirement, but by moving forward
diagonally to their left. As they did so, the Turks opened fire.
Onslow Thompson was killed. Lieutenant Massie picked up his body and
carried it towards the trenches, but the fire proved too severe. The
Colonel’s body remained in front of the line until it was found by the
3rd Battalion when digging a forward sap on May 11th.
The Official History of Australia in
the war of 1914 – 1918. The Story of Anzac. Volume 1. C. E. W. Bean.
University of Queensland Press, page 493. (source 1)
Mentioned in Despatches
- Date of London Gazette - 5 August
1915, page 7668, position 5
- Date of Commonwealth of Australia
Gazette - 28 October 1915, page 2736, position 34
Australian War Memorial (source 7)
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Other Sources |
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Photo |
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Anzac Memorial - 1917, page 252 (source 3) |
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Photo |
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The Sydney Morning Herald
newspaper, 6 May 1915 (source 24) |
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Photo |
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The Sydney Mail
newspaper, 12 May 1915 (source 15) |
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Photo |
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The Argus
newspaper, 8 May 1915, page 20 (source 42) |
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Photo |
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The Australasian
newspaper, 15 May 1915, page vi (source 31) |
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Photo |
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The Daily Telegraph
newspaper, 6 May 1915, page 9 (source 70) |
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Photo |
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The Sydney Mail
newspaper, 12 May 1915, page 9 (source 15) |
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Newspaper article |
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The Sydney Morning Herald
newspaper, 4 November 1915 (source 24) |
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Family details |
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Spirits of
Gallipoli |
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Headstone |
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Gallipoli Photographic Expedition, 2009 (source 183) |
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Notes |
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B2455, THOMPSON AJO, Army Service papers,
National Archives of Australia (source 8) |
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Various |
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Australian War Memorial, ACT, Panel 42 (source 14) |
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