Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Bethune, Alexander Douglas

Born 16^th August 1879 “Cluny” Ouse Tasmania the son of Joseph Robert Douglas and Sibella Maria Bethune (nee Patterson) an assayer he enlisted Victoria and embarked Melbourne 25^th February 1915 on board “HMAT Star of Victoria” with the 8^th Light Horse Regiment. He also served in the Boer War.

He was killed in action 7^th August 1915 on the Gallipoli Peninsula and is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey.

His only brother Norman McLeod Bethune (No 341) died from wounds 19^th April 1917 in Palestine and was buried in the Jerusalem Memorial, Israel.

Mrs. E. P. Adams has received word that her nephew, A. Douglas Bethune is missing at the Dardanelles. He lived his early life in Tasmania, and was educated for some time at the Hutchins School, Hobart. He was a son of Mr. Douglas Bethune, and grandson of the late Mr. Walter Angus Bethune, 11 of whose descendants are in the army or navy.

Mr. A. D. Bethune fought all through the Boer war, and was sent to London with the Australian forces to assist in the Coronation. Immediately on the outbreak of the war he volunteered to serve as a private, and with his brother, Norman Bethune, went to the Dardanelles with the Victorian Light Horse.

BETHUNE.-Killed in action at the Dardanelles, Corporal Alexander Douglas Bethune 8th Light Horse, oldest son of the late J.R. Douglas Bethune, of Tasmania, aged 35 years.

St John the Baptist Ouse

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