Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Crockett William James

Born 24^th November 1874 Bothwell Tasmania the son of William Crockett and married to Ada Bell Tyler with six children, an engine driver married and living in Newtown Sydney New South Wales when he enlisted and embarked Sydney 2^nd November 1915 on board “HMAT Euripides” with the 17^th Infantry Battalion

Sgt Crockett died 4^th August 1916 at the 3^rd Canadian General Hospital from shell wounds and a fractured knee in France and is buried in the Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France.

His son William Ezra Crockett (No 3725) was killed in action in France and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France. He was 18 years old.

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