Thomas Joseph Roberts

Service number: 1409

Rank: Trooper, Signaller

Unit: 6th Light Horse

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Thomas Roberts was born at Woolloomooloo in 1894 and was a bushman. He enlisted on 19 August 1915, giving his wife Mary, at Gilbert Street, Manly, as next of kin.

He embarked on the Hawkes Bay on 23 October 1915 and served in the Middle East with the 6th Light Horse. He was hospitalized on at least three occasions with VD, and was also hospitalized with other ailments. He had a poor disciplinary record. He returned to Australia on the Lancashireon 19 September 1919.