Thomas Joseph COOMBE

Birthplace
Toowoomba
Resided
Toowoomba
Occupation
Clerk
Enlisted
02-June-1917
Place
Toowoomba
Age
21
Status
Single
Service No
3607
Rank
Private
Unit
47th Battalion, 10th Reinforcement
Embarked
02-August-1917
Place
Sydney
Active Service
Western Front
Highest rank
N/A
Honours and Awards
No
Fate
Returned to Australia
January 1919
Notes

Also named on Toowoomba Railway Honour Board.

 

Thomas Coombe arrived in France in December 1917 and transferred to the 42nd Battalion. In September 1918 he was severely wounded in his right elbow and invalided to Reading War Hospital. He returned to Australia in January 1919 and was discharged in March.