Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Cleaver, Louis

Born 15^th Jan 1880 Hobart Tasmania the son of Timothy and Hanorah Cleaver (nee Fahey) and married to Jane Elizabeth Walker and the father of two sons a labourer he embarked Hobart 1^st July 1916 on board “HMAT Berrima” with the 40^th Infantry Battalion.

He was serving with the 3rd Division Trench Mortar Battery Australian Field Artillery killed in action 10^th February 1918 in Belgium and is commemorated in the Berks Cemetery Extension, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium

TASMANIAN CASUALTIES.

Mrs Cleaver of 9 Patrick street Hobart has received a letter from Lieut R Roy Campbell in reference to her husband, Gunner Louis Cleaver, who was in a trench mortar battery and killed in action on February 10 last in France Gunner Cleaver left Tasmania with the 40th Battalion on July 2, 1916 Lieut Campbell expresses the deepest sympathy of Gunner Cleaver's comrades, and also says - Your husband was aways held in high esteem by the whole battery, and his loss is greatly felt by all. He met his death while doing his duty at his post He was killed by a piece of shell and the end came instantaneously. He had no suffering and it is a relief to know that such was the case. I have made arrangements for a cross to be erected over his grave, which is situated a few miles from the firing line."

The Mercury Hobart 24^th April 1918

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