ORIGINAL AVENUE OF HONOUR NAME PLATE C.1929

Service number 6411

On the 4^thApril 1918 Thomas was severely gassed and hospitalised; diagnosed with gas poisoning.

Returned to Australia on the 6^thJune 1918.

Discharged on the 16^thAugust 1918.

In 1919 Thomas worked as a Poultry farmer in Beaconsfield. He later married Hettie Irene Zabel Upton and lived in Caulfield, then employed in sales.

The Argus (10^thOctober 1945)

“Sterry- On October 8^th at Caulfield Military Hospital, Thomas William, dearly loved husband of Hettie, loved father of William (AIF), father-in-law of Yvonne, 50 Saturn Street, South Caulfield (late 1^st AIF, 10^th Battalion, 4^th Fd Bge)- at Rest.

Sterry- On October 8^th at Caulfield Military Hospital, Thomas William, late 1^st, 10^th Battalion, AIF, eldest son of William E Sterry and the late Sophia Sterry, brother of Florrie (Mrs SC Stuart) and dear uncle of Dorothy – In God’s care.”

Died on the 8^thOctober 1945 at Caulfield, Victoria.

Cremated on the 10^thOctober 1945 at Springvale Botanical Cemetery.