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Tabbut, Fremont Leonard, 1193

 

Service No:	1193
Occupation:	Boot maker
Address:	Lilydale Victoria (on the Nominal Roll)
Date of Enlistment:	September 15, 1914
Age at Enlistment:	23 years 4 months
Marital Status:	Single
Physical Description:	Not in Service file.
Next of Kin:	Mr M. A. Tabbut, Ottertail Country, Pelican Rapids, Minn., USA.
Rank on Enlistment:	Private
Unit Name:	1R 7Btn
Embarkation Details:	December 22, 1914, embarked at Melbourne on the Themistocles.

 

Places and dates of service:

1915 April 5: Embarked to join Gallipoli Campaign, from Alexandria.
1915 April 25: Killed In Action Gallipoli.

Service injuries:
1915 April 25: K.I.A., Gallipoli. He is buried at the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey; AWM 51.

Returned to Australia:	Not Applicable
Discharge Date:	Not Applicable
Rank at Discharge:	Private at time of death.
Honours/Medals:	[war medals sent to ‘untraceable] 1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal; Memorial Scroll; Memorial Plaque [Brother, Norman, later discovered in USA, receives medals]
Memorials:	None

 

Family Story:

Fremont Leon Tabbut was born in November 1889 in Becker County, Minn., USA, to Catherine ‘Katie’ Tabbut, nee McDonough (b.1858), and Norman Ward Tabbut (b.1858). Fremont was a Catholic. He listed his Next of Kin as Mr M. A. Tabbut, who replied much later when medals are to be sent, that Fremont has one brother, Norman P. Tabbut at Pelican Rapids, Minn., USA.

Fremont’s effects comprised of an ‘inscribed bugle.’ Notes from Findagrave.com: ‘As an American national, Tabbut was a Private in the Australian infantry when he died. He mustered out of the US Marines in 1911, so he must have envisioned military life as a career once his service with the Marines was over.

Fremont may be the “one” non-Australian/New Zealanders mentioned in the history books who died in the Gallipoli Campaign. So very many men were lost that day…He was 25.’

Tait, Robert Morton, 761

 

Service No:	761
Occupation:	Carpenter
Address:	Lilydale
Date of Enlistment:	June 28, 1915
Age at Enlistment:	20 years 6 months
Marital Status:	Single
Physical Description:	5ft 4in, 10st, brown hair, grey eyes, medium complexion.
Next of Kin:	Mother – Mrs Margaret Tait, Main St, Lilydale.
Rank on Enlistment:	Private
Unit Name:	31st Btn.
Embarkation Details:	November 9, 1915, embarked at Melbourne on the Wandilla

 

Places and dates of service:

1915 December: Gallipoli,
1916 August 28: Appointed Lance Corporal, France.
1916 November – 1917 September: Hospitalised England.
1917 November 15: 5Btn, France.
1917 December 9: Admitted ANZAC Section GHQ in ‘State of extreme terror’ – shell shock.
1917 December 28: returned to France, but unfit.
1918 June 6: Returning to Australia.

Service injuries:
1916 October 27: shell shock, France.
1918 January 9: classified ‘Neurastenia’.

Returned to Australia:	July 31, 1918 on the Baramba
Discharge Date:	February 16, 1919
Rank at Discharge:	Lance Coporal
Honours/Medals:	1914-1915 Star; Victory Medal; British War Medal.
Memorials:	Lilydale State School Honour Roll; Shire of Lillydale Honour Roll; Lilydale Fire Brigade Roll of Honour; I. O. O. R. Lilydale Roll of Honour.

 

Family Story:

Robert Morton ‘Mort’ Tait was born at Ringwood, Vic., in 1895 to Henry Cameron Tait and Margaret Morton Tait [Ancestry]. His father was deceased by the time of enlistment. Mort was apprenticed for four years to William John Sebire, builder of Clarke St, Lilydale.
A Lilydale Presbyterian Church farewell social includes Mort Tait [Lilydale Express July 16, 1915 p4].
Mort also attended the Shire send-off at Athenaeum Hall, Lilydale [Lilydale Express October 29,1915 p5]

In June 1918: ‘Mrs Tait of Lilydale has received word…that her son Corp. R. M. Tait is on his way home. [He] was blown up by a shell in the first stages of the big German offensive in Flanders and has been twice wounded. He left Lilydale some three years ago and has seen much service.’ [Lilydale Express June 26, 1918 p2]

In August 1918, ‘Lilydale railway station was crowded with people…when the 6.15 train arrived from Melbourne with two returned soldiers, Mort Tait and W. Rothque. Private Tait who is a very popular lad has seen service at Gallipoli and in Flanders, being at one time buried by a shell in the latter place…He was invalided home. Private Tait bears evidence of the terrible ordeal through which he passed.’ [Lilydale Express August 2, 1918 p2]

Soldiers were welcomed home at the Athenaeum Lilydale in September 1918, ‘every returned man was then presented with a certificate from the Shire Council…The soldiers responded individually with the exception of Corp. Tait who was still suffering from his experiences at the front, and was not permitted by the doctors to speak. Mr R. Morton responded on his behalf.’  [Lilydale Express 13.9.1918 p2]

Mort became a member of the Lilydale R.S.L. His Next of Kin changed in July 1942 to his widow: Mrs S. D. Tait, Alexander St, Greensborough, Vic. Mort Tait died on July 6, 1942 [Note on service record].

Welcome Home Lilydale Express Report September 13, 1918

Tanner, J.F., 1259

 

Service No:	1259
Occupation:	Boot repairer
Address:	Not given
Date of Enlistment:	July 5, 1915
Age at Enlistment:	19 years 7 months
Marital Status:	Single
Physical Description:	5ft 4¼in, 8st 11lbs, dark brown hair, grey eyes, sallow complexion.
Next of Kin:	Father – Edward Charles Tanner, c/o Coombe Cottage, Coldstream.
Rank on Enlistment:	Private
Unit Name:	D Coy. 29Btn
Embarkation Details:	November 10, 1915, embarked at Melbourne on the Ascanius.

 

Places and dates of service:

1916 June 16: Embarked to join BEF, from Alexandria.
1916 June 23-1918 November 22: France.
1918 November 4: 58Btn Reinforcements, France.
1918 November 22: 5Btn Reinforcements, France.
1919 March 9: Returning to Australia.

Service injuries:
1918 July 29: Shot gun wound, right thigh, France.

Returned to Australia:	April 30, 1919 on the Kashmi.
Discharge Date:	June 22, 1919
Rank at Discharge:	Private
Honours/Medals:	1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
Memorials:	Coldstream & Yering Memorial; Shire of Lillydale Honour Roll.

 

Family Story:

James Forbes Tanner was born at Learmonth, Vic., in 1896, to Edward Charles Tanner and Catherine Elizabeth Tanner, nee McBean. He was Presbyterian. James’s siblings were John, Harry Walter, Margaret Elizabeth, Catherine McBean, Francis, Eric Rose, and one other.

Prior to enlistment, James had served with 48th (Kooyong) Cadets – 3 years; and 48th (Kooyong) Citizens Forces – 1 year. His father’s address later changed from c/o Coombe Cottage, Coldstream to c/o Mrs A. J. Smith, 498 Drummond St, Carlton, Vic.

In 1924, James was living at 96 Napier St, South Melbourne. James Tanner died in 1954. [Ancestry]

Tassie, W.,

Taylor, L.B.,

See Cox-Taylor, Noel 39015

 

Tegart, Herbert Leslie, 954

 

Service No:	954
Occupation:	Brickmaker
Address:	c/o P.O Montrose
Date of Enlistment:	July 9, 1915
Age at Enlistment:	18 years 3 months
Marital Status:	Single
Physical Description:	5ft 4in tall, 8 stn 9 lbs, grey eyes, brown hair, fresh complexion.
Next of Kin:	Father John Tegart
Rank on Enlistment:	Private
Unit Name:	31sr Btn.
Embarkation Details:	November 9, 1915 Melbourne on HMAT Wandilla A62.

 

Places and dates of service:

1915 December 7: to Suez Egypt.
1916 June 16: to Alexandria Egypt.
1916 June 23: to Marseilles France.
1917 September 29: Kill In Action.

Service injuries: 
1917 September 29: killed in action – in the field Belgium. Buried first in the vicinity of Polygon Wood, and re-interned Tyne Cot British Cemetery Passchendaele Belgium, Plot 63, row B, grave 4.

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Returned to Australia:	Not Applicable
Discharge Date:	Not Applicable
Rank at Discharge:	Private at time of death.
Honours/Medals:	1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Memorials:	Montrose War Memorial, Montrose State School Honour Board and a tree planted in his honour.