Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Bashfield, Henry Dundas

Was a cabinetmaker when he enlisted and was serving with the 3^rd Australian Light Horse when he was wounded at Gaza Palestine. He was admitted to the Anzac Receiving Station with a gun shot wound to the chest and was transferred to the 54^th Casualty Clearing Station on the 19^th April. He died on wounds whilst on the hospital train 24^th April 1917.

Born Dundas Tasmania the son of Andrew J Bashfield (Rose and Crown Hotel Hobart) a cabinet maker he embarked Melbourne 9^th September 1915 on board “HMAT Ballarat” with the 3^rd Light Horse Regiment.

Trooper Bashfield died 24^th April 1917 on the hospital train between Kantara and El Ariah from a gunshot wound to the abdomen and was buried in the Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.

Soldiers in Aerodrome Camp, Heliopolis Egypt

J Morrison, H Bashfield, G Triffitt, F Murphy and W Smith

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