YAPP, Thomas Henry VETERAN

Name – YAPP, Thomas Henry VETERAN
Born – 00/00/1899
Died – 20/05/1922
Location – No 5 Anglican Section
Mother – Fanny Ward
Father – Thomas Henry Yapp

Notes – Thomas was born in Birmingham, England in 1899 to Fanny and Thomas Yapp. He was baptised on the 14th April and they lived at 190 Schnidol Rd. His father was a turner, in the county of Warwick, Summerfeld.

They left England in 1910, he was aged 14 yrs, with his mother, father and brother Charles 12 years old and little brother William (Bill) aged 4, on the ship SS Rippingham Grange.

Thomas enlisted in WWI on the 15th September, 1915. His proffesion at the time was Selector. His position in the army was a Gunner in the 1st Light Horse Regiment from Sept 1915 to July 1919. He was wounded in 1918 in France but returned to his unit 31 days later.

He returned to Tara and his parents and married Hanora Larcombe on the 8th December, 1921 and they had one child, but I don’t know what the baby’s name was. The Yapps played cricket for Tara.

At the time of his death Thomas was working as a benchman in the sawmill at the railway yard. He was only 23 yrs old. Read here.

Thomas shares a grave with his father Thomas and his mother Fanny is nearby.

Newspaper Article – Read here.

War Service File  – YAPP, Thomas Henry

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