Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Blyth Edward Fitzgerald

Born 1888 Exton Tasmania to Edward Pearson and Annie Mary Blyth (nee Hobden) a farm labourer who embarked Melbourne 20^th May 1916 on board “HMAT Medic” with the 23^rd Howitzer Brigade.

He was serving with the 3^rd Division Heavy Trench Mortar Battery when he died 2^nd February 1917 at the 2^nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station after being shot in the lungs and was buried in the Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck, France.

Corporal Edward Fitzgerald Blyth, of the 3rd Trench Mortar Battery, who was fatally wounded in in France on February 1 and died in hospital the next day, was a fine strapping young man, 28 years of age, the fourth son of Mr. E. P. Blyth, of Devonport, who has numerous connections in the South, whilst his mother, who was a Miss Hobden, belonged to a well-known family at Cambridge.

The Mercury 20^th February 1917

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