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Private Thomas Wood 1030. 17th Battalion AIF

  • Private Thomas Wood 1030. 17th Battalion AIF

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    Thomas Wood is memorialised on the Killingworth Soldiers' Memorial Monument. He was not a resident of Lake Macquarie, but was given a place on the memorial due to his family ties with Killingworth - brother Sapper James Wood. Both have their surnames incorrectly inscribed as Woods. Thomas was killed in action in September 1915 at Gallipoli, Kindly donated by Jim Wood.

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