Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Bruford, Alex Teulon Beamish

Born 11^th May 1887 Hobart Tasmania the son of Henry Buncombe and Mary Teulon Bruford (nee Beamish) a bank officer he embarked Brisbane 5^th October 1915 on board “HMAT Warilda” with the 26^th Infantry Battalion.

He died 26^th March 1917 in France from wounds received in the field and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France

The friends of Lance Corporal A T B Bruford who enlisted in Hobart in 1915 under war leave from the Bank of Australasia as well as many old residents who may still remember his parents when his father was manager of the same bank at its old offices in Macquarie Street will be sorry to notice in the casualty lists an announcement of his death on 26th March from wounds received in Fance. He had just returned after recovery from severe wounds sustained in a previous engagement and subsequent temporary employment (between recurring attacks of trench rheumatism) on special work at the local base. The bank’s flag at the superintendents office in Melbourne was half masted on receipt of the news as a mark of respect for the memory of one of its patriotic and courteous young officers. Almost simultaneously with the official notification of the death of his younger son Mr H B Bruford received from his eldest son Sergeant Russell Bruford, also a native of Hobart and who enlisted at the tame tíme as his late brother, a clipping from the ribbon of a military medal awarded him for special valour connected with the rescue in November last of wounded from an advanced trench under intense artillery fire.

The Mercury Hobart 2^nd May 1917

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