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Soldier profiles
Name : FOLEY, THOMAS EDWARD
Service Number : NX85887
Date of Birth : 10/07/1922
Place of Birth : COFFS HARBOUR, NSW
Known as : TOM
Occupation on Enlistment : FARM LABOURER
Date of Enlistment : 27/01/1942
Locality on Enlistment : COFFS HARBOUR, NSW
Place of Enlistment : PADDINGTON, NSW
Next of Kin : FOLEY, THOMAS
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : LANCE CORPORAL
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 2/2 PIONEER BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) :
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) : 65 INFANTRY BATTALION (BALIKPAPAN, BORNEO)
Theatres of War : NEW GUINEA, BORNEO
Actions : TARAKAN (BORNEO), BALIKPAPAN (BORNEO)
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 31/03/1947
Date Died : 22/09/1987
Age at Death : 65
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : N/A
K.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
D.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
M.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. (location/s) : NO
Died P.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. Camps (details) : N/A
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : N/A
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : NO
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 4638740 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll, 2/2 Pioneers Newsletter 04/1988 p2
Background : NO
