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Note: e for his father when he enlisted.
Parents were James Coates Rait and Susan McIlvrey.
WAR SERVICE:
Enlisted 31 May 1915.
Embarkation roll gave age as 19, single, address Craigiebar via Warrion, Beeac, Victoria, next-of-kin father James Rait of Kirkland Street, Glasgow, Scotland, relgion Presbyterian.
Number 3598
Rank Private
Unit: 24 Infantry Battalion - 1 to 8 Reinforcements (May 1915 - January 1916)
Ship Name: HMAT Afric
Date of embarkation: 5 January 1916
Place of embarkation: Melbourne
1919 Electoral Roll:
Fitzroy South, Batman, Victoria
Rait, Thomas Dixon, 18 Fleet Street, Fitzroy, clerk
Wife at same address.
1924 Electoral Roll:
Clifton Hill, Batman, Victoria
Rait, Thomas Dickson, 2a Council Street, Clifton Hill, clerk
Wife at same address.
1931 Electoral Roll:
Camberwell, Kooyong, Victoria
Rait, Thomas Dickson, Lynden Street, East Camberwell, clerk
Wife at same address.
1936 Electoral Roll:
Camberwell, Kooyong, Victoria
Rait, Thomas Dickson, Lynden Street, East Camberwell, clerk
Wife at same address.
Note: Birth not in Vic indexes. Presumably he was born in Scotland, as that was the address he gav
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