Soldier profiles

Name : ALFORD, THOMAS
Service Number : VX30583
Date of Birth : 07/01/1901
Place of Birth : STRATFORD, VIC
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : LABOURER
Date of Enlistment : 06/06/1940
Locality on Enlistment : ABBOTSFORD, VIC
Place of Enlistment : ROYAL PARK, VIC
Next of Kin : ALFORD, FRANCES
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 : SYRIA
Actions :
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 30/06/1942
Date Died : 18/06/1979
Age at Death : 78
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 6225729 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll, Australian War Memorial

Background :

Service & personal summary At enlistment : married. No previous military experience. At discharge : height 5 feet 3.5 inches, blue eyes, medium complexion, light brown hair. Marital status : married. Marks / scars : scar left groin. Full time war service : A.I.F. 06/06/1940 to 30/06/1942 which included 755 days active service (420 days within Australia & 335 days overseas). Operational service : Middle East area (embarked from Australia 07/04/1941, disembarked in Australia 08/03/1942). War badge no. 6389. Discharge certificate no. 27806.

Service record
06/06/1940 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Royal Park, Victoria.
10/06/1940 Transferred to Reception Infantry Training Battalion Balcombe, Mt. Martha, Victoria ex Royal Park, Victoria.
12/07/1940 Transferred to Infantry Training Battalion Balcombe, Mt. Martha, Victoria.
16/07/1940 Posted from Infantry Training Battalion Balcombe, Mt. Martha, Victoria.
16/07/1940 Transferred to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
07/04/1941 Embarked Sydney, New South Wales on H.M.S. Queen Mary (H.M.T. N.N.).
03/05/1941 Disembarked Middle East.
14/11/1941 Evacuated from 2/2 Pioneer Battalion to 2/1 Australian Casualty Clearing Station with chronic dyspepsia and transferred to X list.
20/11/1941 Evacuated from 2/1 Australian Casualty Clearing Station to 7 Australian General Hospital.
11/01/1942 Medical classification assessed as temporarily unfit for service by medical board 31/12/1941.
18/02/1942 Embarked Middle East on hospital ship S.S. Oranje for return to Australia as medically unfit.
08/03/1942 Disembarked Melbourne, Victoria.
08/03/1942 Transferred in ex no.1 hospital ship S.S. Oranje.
08/03/1942 Granted disembarkation leave 08/03/1942 to 23/03/1942.
23/03/1942 Reason for return : duodenal ulcer. Disposal and leave repost Australian Imperial Forces Details Caulfield, Victoria.
23/03/1942 Evacuated from Southern Command Recovery Camp to 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria.
23/03/1942 Admitted 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria with duodenal ulcer.
01/06/1942 Discharged to Southern Command 3 Military District (Victoria) Recovery Camp.
30/06/1942 Discharged medically unfit for service not occasioned by his own default.