Rank:
Private
Service number:
12656
Unit:
11th Field Ambulance
Date of Death:
7 May 1917
Enquirer:
Packet number:
2724
Date range:
1917
SLSA record number:
SRG 76/1/2724
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Thomas Nelson O'Dea
Submitted by triciad on Wed, 05/27/2015 - 13:40
Private Thomas Nelson O'Dea, born Adelaide 13 November 1880. Member of the 11th Australian Field Ambulance, he embarked Port Adelaide on 31 May 1916 for France on HMAT Suevic. O'Dea died at No.2 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Belgium, on 9 May 1917, of gun shot wound to right shoulder, 9 May 1917. He was buried in Trois-Arbres Cemetery at Steenwerck in northern France.
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