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Hint: This site is intended as a search aid - not a definitive source. It is essentially an index to documents that seem to relate to this person plus a very brief precis of relevant elements. Sources often conflict and I also flag things with a ? when I am unsure. So if the information below is important to you, then please check the original sources to see what else they contain (and in case I have inadvertantly introduced transcription and/or precising errors). There can be additional information that was not included in the database for both space and copyright reasons.


 

Surname DAY
Given Name(s) or Initial(s) Albert Thomas
Regimental Number
RankLieutenant
Unit Name 2nd Australian Commonwealth Horse (Vic)
StateVic
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown)
Murray: 1Brab.H, OC 'A'Sqn. 2ACH
West Australian: ?resumed duty 7.1901.
B5207: farmer & grazier aged 31 from Kew Vic., 12 months 1st Brabant's Horse.
URL1: WW1 AIF 600 Private 6LH died of wounds 10.8.1915.
URL2: DOW Gallipoli enlisted Warrendyte Vic.
URL6: WO126 Brabant's Horse, DAY Albert Thomas.
URL4: WW1 AIF ?DAY Albert Thomas 600 1/9LH a surveyors employee aged 44 in 1914 born in Camperdown Vic. next of kin wife at Warrandyte, service in Brabant's Horse & 1ACH Boer war about 18 months plus 3 years Militia Force, died of wounds 10.8.1915 Gallipoli.
URL7: Lieut. 'C'Sqn. Brabant's Horse joined 1.12.1900 resigned 21.5.1901 enlisted 1st BH 21.7.1901.
URL8: Following is a list of officers as selected by Major General DOWNES to command Victorian companies — Major D MCLEISH CMG, Captain HW TENDLEBURY, and Captain WT KIRBY DSO, Lieutenant HAA EMBLING, Lieutenant RR GARLAND Lieutenant HH BELL, Lieutenant AT DAY and Lieutenant H LOCKETT.
Source References
Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 308 309
West Australian: West Australian newspaper date(s) 11.7.1901
B5207: National Archives of Australia series B5207
B2455: National Archives of Australia series B2455
Sydney Mail: Sydney Mail newspaper date(s) 11.1.1902
External Link URL1www.awm.gov.au/database/133/page.asp?Folder=13&Page=118&Surname=day
External Link URL2www.awm.gov.au/database/roh.asp
External Link URL3www.anzacs.net/GRAVES/Cemeteries/GravesIndex_A_G.htm
External Link URL4naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=3493762&I=1&SE=1
External Link URL5aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=75556
External Link URL6www.britishmedals.us/files/126brabant.htm
External Link URL7www.angloboerwar.com/south-african-units/303-brabants-horse?start=1
External Link URL8nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163818007


Please email me if you can contribute any other relevant information about this person (eg any other military service, where in Australia they came from or when/where they died). Also, if you find an external link broken.


Apology: For some time now it has been difficult to keep up with the newly available sources (especially the Trove newspaper site) plus the flow of contributions and queries. So I have been forced to prioritise maintenance and data entry over replying to correspondence. Nevertheless, your contributions are being added to the database and acknowledged on the contributions page and, although my replies are many months behind, I will attempt to get to them more often.
 
Colin Roe
Canberra

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