Soldier profiles

Name : ABERLINE, THOMAS FLINT DOWNES
Service Number : VX20805
Date of Birth : 11/06/1910
Place of Birth : PENSHURST, VIC
Known as : TOM
Occupation on Enlistment : LABOURER
Date of Enlistment : 01/06/1940
Locality on Enlistment : WARRNAMBOOL, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : ABERLINE, THOMAS
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : PRIVATE
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 2/2 PIONEER BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) :
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War : N/A
Actions :
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 02/12/1940
Date Died : 29/04/1984
Age at Death : 73
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : WARRNAMBOOL CEMETERY, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA. REF 4694.
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 6212308 [DIGITISED], Barcode 31048114 [NOT EXAMINED]), WW2 Nominal Roll, Australian War Memorial

Background : Husband of Sylvia Frances (died 31/12/1987 Warrnambool Cemetery ref 4695). Son of Susan (Warrnambool Cemetery ref 4693).

Service & personal summary At enlistment : single. No previous military experience. At discharge : height 5 feet 7.5 inches, hazel eyes, dark complexion, brown hair. Marks / scars : small scar left thigh. Full time war service : A.I.F. 01/06/1940 to 02/12/1940 which included 185 days active service (185 days within Australia & 0 days overseas). Discharge certificate no. 16497.

Service record
01/06/1940 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Caulfield, Victoria.
03/06/1940 Posted from Recruit Reception Depot to 2/2 Medical Regiment Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
29/07/1940 Transferred to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria from 2/2 Medical Regiment.
29/07/1940 Transferred from 2/2 Medical Regiment to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
06/09/1940 Admitted Puckapunyal 4 Australian General Hospital, Seymour, Victoria with fractured proximal phalanx left big toe.
23/09/1940 Discharged to unit.
29/10/1940 Admitted to Broadmeadows Convalescent Depot, Victoria.
29/10/1940 Transferred to X list. Evacuated to Broadmeadows Convalescent Depot, Victoria.
12/11/1940 Transferred from 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria to Broadmeadows Convalescent Depot, Victoria and struck off strength.
29/11/1940 Admitted to Broadmeadows Convalescent Depot, Victoria with urethritis.
29/11/1940 Discharged from Broadmeadows Convalescent Depot, Victoria unfit to Discharge Depot.
02/12/1940 Discharged Royal Park, Victoria being medically unfit for service not occasioned by his own default.