Tasmanian War Casualties

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LYNE, DOUGLAS MORTON

Rank Quartermaster Sergeant	Unit Fourth (Second Imperial Bushmen) Contingent, Tas	Date of Death 4 May 1902
Service Number 193	Service Colonial Military Forces	Cause of Death Died of disease

Born 26^th May 1877 near Swansea to Harry Lyne and Sarah Lillias Lyne (nee Hume) and had been working for some years in the Bank of Australasia before joining the company.

He joined as a trooper but before leaving was made corporal and other promotions speedily followed. When the column was broken up and the Tasmanians attached to another Douglas Lyne was allowed to go with Colonel Cooper, Army Service Corps, and retained his rank in Colonel Jervis’ column on extra service pay, under Lieutenant Cox up to the 22^nd of April, on which date he left to join the Tasmanians who were mobilising to return home. On the 26^th he was removed from a troop train at Norval’s Point, suffering from enteric fever, and in a very dangerous condition. He succumbed on the 4^th of May and was buried the following day.

Extracted from

Tasmanians in the Transvaal War by John Bufton

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