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• Name HURLEY
• Initials TJ
• First name THOMAS JOSEPH
• Place of birth Colac
• Country Victoria, Australia
• Last residence Casterton, Victoria
• Family Son of Denis Hurley and Mary Jane Moloney, of Henty, Victoria, Australia;
  Brothers: James, Jeremiah, Thomas, William, John, Joseph, John Vincent, Anthony;
  Sisters: Mary Agnes, Ellen, Evelyn, Brigid Ivy;
  Half Brothers: Gillis, James Peter, Francis, Kevin, Edward, Lawrence Gerrard, Matthew, Anthony;
  Half Sisters: Kathleen, Veronica, Mildred, Josephine.
  
  Two brothers died in WW1: 2392 Sergeant Jeremiah HURLEY, 46th Bn, died of wounds, 13 July 1918; 3869 Pte Denis HURLEY (twin brother of Thomas), 46th Bn, killed in action, 13 August 1916.
• Education Pirron Yallock State School; trained in Horse Breaking
• Profession Labourer

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 12 December 1914, Melbourne
• Service number 249
• Rank Driver
• Medals 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
• Regiment and unit 2nd Bn. Australian Pioneers
• Army - Corps - Division 2nd Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Enlisted with the 13th Light Horse Regiment; embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on 28 May 1915; Gallipoli; to France March 1916; transferred to 2nd Pioneer Battalion June 1916

Death

• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds at n°10 CCS
• Date of death 12 October 1917
• Died at the age of 25
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - A - 9

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