Thomas William Digby

Service number: 2535

Rank:

Private

Unit: 53rd Battalion

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Date of death: 1931

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Thomas Digby was a fireman. He enlisted on 26 May 1916, with next of kin his wife Juanita, living at 66 Corso. He embarked on 14 September 1916. He went AWOL on two occasions.

He contracted pleurisy in April 1917, and VD in February 1918. He returned to Australia on the Beltana in July 1919.

In December 1931, destitute, he drowned himself at Auckland, New Zealand.