Veteran's Heritage Survey noted a stained glass memorial to Thomas Dwyer. It has not been located.
Thomas Leo Dwyer was born at Mirnie, near Winchelsea. He enlisted in the Light Horse on 31 October 1914 and embarked on HMAT A26 Armadale in 12 February 1915. Trooper Dwyer was transferred from reinforcements to the 8Australian Light Horse on Gallipoli on 2 August 1915, only to be killed in action on 7 August. He was buried at Ari Burnu Cemetery, only half a mile north of Anzac Cove.
References & Acknowledgements
AWM Roll of Honour; NAA: B2455, Dwyer TL; Gregory, Gregory and Koenig, Coast to Country: Winchelsea - A History of the Shire, Shire of Winchelsea in conjunction with Hargreen Publishing Co., North Melbourne, 1985, p.38..
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