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Blackmore Albert Robert

Born 28^th April 1886 Nugent Tasmania and married to Myrtle May Holmes he was a schoolteacher and in 1909 published a book of poems entitled “Shade and Echo” which he dedicated to his sister Suzannah, the wife of Senator John Earle.

He departed Hobart 8^th August 1916 on board “HMAT Ballarat” with the 12^th Infantry Battalion.  He continued to write while overseas and his work was republished in 1920.

He was wounded in action three times in France, finally dying of pneumonia 2^nd November 1918 at Weymouth England just a few days before the war ended and was buried in the Melcombe Regis Cemetery, United Kingdom.

Our Bruny correspondent writes: - News of the death (from tuberculosis, following being thrice wounded) of Private A. R. Blackmore, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Blackmore of Nugent, and husband of Mrs. Blackmore of Battery Point, Hobart in a Weymouth hospital on November 2, was received on Bruny Island with feelings of the most profound regret. Private Blackmore, who is the 22nd (out of 58) Bruny volunteers to nobly lay down his life for the cause of Empire and for freedom's sake was in charge of the Adventure Bay State school at the time of his enlistment and was one of the six Bruny recruits that passed the medical examination held in the Alonnah public hall on March 8, 1916. Under the name of 'Thamyris" he wrote graceful verse and in 1909 published a book of verse, entitled "Shade and Echo," which finds a place in the Public Libraries of Sydney and Melbourne.

The Mercury 18^th November 1918

A cable message was received yesterday by Mrs. Blackmore at present residing at Battery Point announcing the death of Private A. R. Blackmore, her husband. Private Blackmore was formerly a school teacher at Alonnah was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Blackmore of Nugent and brother-in-law to Senator Earle. He enlisted over two years ago, and was thrice wounded. The last reports from the London Hospital in which he was a patient indicated that he expected to be returning to Australia very soon, his latest wound being of so serious a nature as to render his return to the front improbable, but tuberculosis intervened. Private Blackmore was locally known as a writer of graceful verse much of which was published in "The Tasmanian Mail" the "Clipper," and the "Lone Hand."

The Mercury 13^th November 1918

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