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WW1 Australian Memorial Plaque to Thomas Caine Beverly, 16th Battalion A.I.F. who survived Gallipoli, only to be killed in a German bombing attack whilst holding the line at Ypres in 1916.

Memorial Plaque, named THOMAS CAINE BEVERLEY in original wax card cover. It comes with copies of service records extracts, war diary extract, picture of grave and Commonwealth War Graves certificate. Note there is only one Thomas Caine Beverly listed on the C.W.G.C.

Thomas Caine Beverly was born on 27/12/1892 in Delph, Saddleworth Lancashire, England. The 1911 census records him living in England working as a cowman on farm. He emigrated to Australia in 1911 and on the outbreak of the First World War he was working in Western Australia as a butcher. He enlisted into the 5th Reinforcements, 16th Battalion on 16/2/1915. After initial training he departed Australia bound for Egypt on 26/4/1915. He joined the 16th Battalion on Gallipoli on 17/6/1915. He was evacuated with ‘deafness’ to Malta on the 13/7/1915, returning on 9/9/1915. He survived the remainder of the battalion’s time on Gallipoli and withdrew with them to Egypt in December. He deployed with the battalion to France on 9/6/1916 and was killed in action on 28/9/1916 in the Ypres sector when the battalion was in the line. The war diary records ‘The enemy threw a very large number of ‘rum jars’ in our direction killing one man and wounding two’. He was buried in Chester Farm Cemetery.