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Ashley Moncrieff Thomson 1954 - 2017

Ashley Moncrieff Thomson of Emerald, VIC Australia was born on May 8, 1954 at Hedge Barton - Fordcombe, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent County, England United Kingdom to Elsie Jean (Dennis) Swales and Charles Robertson Moncrieff Thomson. Ashley Thomson died at age 63 years old on August 1, 2017 in Emerald, VIC Australia, and was buried at Emerald Cemetery in Emerald.
Ashley Moncrieff Thomson
Steven Swales
Emerald, VIC 3782, Australia
May 8, 1954
Hedge Barton - Fordcombe, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent County, England, United Kingdom
August 1, 2017
Emerald, VIC, 3782, Australia
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  • Introduction

    Ashley emmigrated from England to Australia in 1955 with his mother when he was an infant and landed in Fremantle, Western Australia on 3rd May 1955, then proceeding by ship to Sydney, New South Wales. He was adopted by Aldwyn Thomas Swales after his mother Elsie Jean (Dennis) Thomson married Aldwyn on 19th December 1957 and henceforth was known as Steven Swales. Not long after his adopted family moved from Sandringham, Melbourne to Raymond Island, Gippsland, Victoria in 1970, Steven returned to Melbourne where he lived for a time in Malvern (1971-1972), Bonbeach (1973-1977), and Windsor (1978) where he lived with his girlfirend Gretta. Around 1985, he went to live with his mother in Emerald, where he remained until his death in 2017.
  • 05/8
    1954

    Birthday

    May 8, 1954
    Birthdate
    Hedge Barton - Fordcombe, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent County, England United Kingdom
    Birthplace
  • Ethnicity & Family History

    Anglo Saxon
  • Nationality & Locations

    British and later Australian
  • Early Life & Education

    Beaumaris High School
  • Professional Career

    1971-1972: Television Set Junior Assistant, Crawford Productions, Melbourne, Australia. In later life, he played guitar in a band called "Stella Gorgeous".
  • 08/1
    2017

    Death

    August 1, 2017
    Death date
    lung cancer
    Cause of death
    Emerald, VIC 3782, Australia
    Death location
  • Gravesite & Burial

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    Funeral date
    Emerald Cemetery in Emerald, VIC 3782, Australia
    Burial location
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In 1954, in the year that Ashley Moncrieff Thomson was born, from April 22 through June 17th, the Army v. McCarthy hearings were held. The U.S. Army accused Roy Cohn (chief counsel to Senator McCarthy and later trusted mentor of Donald Trump) of blackmail. McCarthy and Cohn accused the U.S. Army of harboring communists. The Army allegations were found to be true. The U.S. Senate later censured McCarthy.
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In 1965, at the age of merely 11 years old, Ashley was alive when on March 8th, the first US combat troops arrived in Vietnam. The 3500 Marines joined 23,000 "advisors" already in South Vietnam. By the end of the year, 190,000 American soldiers were in the country.
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