Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Darcy Martin

Son of William Darcy and Mary Woolley and grandson of Martin Darcy and Mary Ann O’Connor.
Martin, a 24-year-old labourer from Franklin, enlisted on 4 March 1916. On 18 April he was assigned to the 13th reinforcement to the 19th Battalion, and embarked for England from Sydney on HMAT Ajana on 5 July.
After training in England, Martin was transferred into the 36th Battalion, called “Carmichael’s Thousand” after Ambrose Carmichael the New South Wales minister for Public Information who had recruited most of its personnel from rifle clubs around Newcastle. The 36th moved into the trenches of the Western Front on 4 December, just in time for the onset of the terrible winter of 1916–17. On 30 December Martin was hospitalised for scabies.

The 9^th MGC lost 3 officers and 17 other ranks. Martin Darcy is buried in Kandahar Farm Cemetery Plot 11 Row A grave 7 Neuve-Eglise, Belgium

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