Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Cummings Mortimer

Born 1866 Port Sorell Tasmania the son of Anderson and Letitia Cummings (nee Flint) and married to Margaret Mary Clampett a stock dealer who had been allotted to the 40^th Battalion.

Was twice under sailing orders but was but both times stricken down with pneumonia and died 13^th June 1917 at the Base Hospital Launceston. He was accorded a military funeral and buried in the Carr Villa General Cemetery, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

Two of his sons served but safely returned to Tasmania

A MILITARY FUNERAL.

A military funeral was yesterday accorded Private Mortimer Cummings, who died at the Military Hospital, Launceston. Deceased was on leave earlier in the week from Claremont and contracted pneumonia. Ho was a widower and two of his sons are fighting in France.

The Mercury 15^th June 1917

Photo courtesy Janice Moore

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