Amy Mackay' Mother ; 79 Mark Lane, London, England. Later 7A Thayer St , Manchester Square London.,
Date of death
1916-09-03,
Place of death
Mouquet Farm (France),
Place of burial
Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery (France),
Memorial
Darwin Cenotaph,
Cultural heritage
English,
Biographical notes
Born to Thomas and Amy Mackay. At the age of 14 he took head prize at his school in Ecclestown Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey. Beck worked as a steward on coasting vessels Wyreema, Wandilla, Kapunda, Coolgardie and others.,
History
Beck's unit embarked from Sydney on board HMAT A16 'Star of Victoria' on 31 March 1916 and transferred to 49th Battalion on 20 May 1916. Taken on strength 13 August 1916 and mortally wounded on 3 September 1916 at Mouquet Farm, Pozieres. The Unit War diary has a two page account of the assault on the trenches at "Ferme de Mouquet" in which Thomas died.,
Subject
World War, 1914-1918,
Northern Territory,
Australia. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps,
History,
ANZAC,
Related links
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=3065195&I=1&SE=1,
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1638164/,
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/items/ACCNUM_LARGE/RCDIG1067549%5CRCDIG1067549--429-.JPG,
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/nominal_rolls/first_world_war/page/R1558317/,
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/AWM4/23/66/,
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/27115033,
http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/first_world_war/AWMOHWW1/AIF/Vol3/,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3291002,
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38686275,
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/74032/BECK,%20THOMAS%20FRED,
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/27115033 [Always faithful : a history of the 49th Australian Infantry Battalion, 1916-1982 by Frederick Cranston. Brisbane : Boolarong Publications, 1983.],
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/nominal_rolls/first_world_war/page/R1558317/ [Nominal Roll],
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/AWM4/23/66/ [Unit War Diary],
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=3065195&I=1&SE=1 [Service Record],
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3291002 ["Roll of Honour", Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 17 August 1918: p.16.],
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1638164/ [Roll of Honour],
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/items/ACCNUM_LARGE/RCDIG1067549%5CRCDIG1067549--429-.JPG [Embarkation Roll - HMAT A16 'Star of Victoria'],
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38686275 [Darwin Returned Servicemens' League (RSL) : A Concise History of its Conception and Development by Clive Francis Geddes. Darwin : Clive Francis Geddes, 2011: p.35.],
http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/first_world_war/AWMOHWW1/AIF/Vol3/ [History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 : Volume III 12th edition compiled by C.E.W. Bean. Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1941.],
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/74032/BECK,%20THOMAS%20FRED [Commonwealth War Graves - Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension - Thomas Fred Beck],