Tasmanian War Casualties

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Anderson, Donald James Carey

Born 13^th May 1893 Hobart Tasmania the son of Henry Hudson and Catherine Margaret Anderson (nee Dakin) a clerk he embarked Sydney 18^th October 1914 on board “HMAT Suffolk” with the 2^nd Infantry Battalion.

He was killed in action 17^th August 1916 at Pozieres and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux

Donald James Carey Anderson, a son of the Rev. H. and Mrs. Anderson of Stanley. This young soldier was 23 years of age, and enlisted in New South Wales in the beginning of the war in the 2nd Batt. He saw service from 4 to 6 months in Gallipoli from which place he was invalided to England with rheumatism, and after 3 or 4 months returned to Egypt, where he spent about 2 months and then wear to France. After from 4 to 5 months' fighting there, he has gloriously laid down his life for King and country, and has died for the honor of the flag. The deceased soldier can truly be said to come of a fighting family, as a brother Lieut. Kenneth Anderson, was killed at Quinn's Post in Gallipoli; another brother Bert, is at present with the Engineers in France whilst a fourth gave up a position as an assayer in Penang, returned to Australia, and enlisted as a private and about a fortnight ago spent his final leave at Stanley. This record of four brothers is indeed a splendid one. The hearts of all the people of the district go out in deepest sympathy to the Rev and. Mrs. Anderson, who have given so much for the Empire.

The North Western Advocate 13^th September 1916

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