Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Devlyn Victor Powell

A YOUNG SOLDIER'S DEATH

The death occurred at Roseneath Hospital on Sunday of Private Victor Devlyn, youngest son of Mr and Mrs Devlyn of Cygnet. The young soldier had been ill for some time with typhoid fever but gradually improving and considered to be practically out of danger, when on Sunday afternoon he suddenly became much worse and died at 1 o'clock. The deceased was for several years a resident of Cygnet and was employed at the post office where his happy genial manner won him many friends. As soon as he was 18 years of age he decided to enlist and had been in camp some time before he was stricken with fever. The deepest sympathy is felt throughout the district for his bereaved parents, who have two sons on active service. A painful feature of the case was the fact that his mother journeyed to Hobart on Sunday to see him, expecting to find him nearly convalescent, and arriving at the hospital at three o'clock in the afternoon was greeted with the awful news that her boy had passed away just two hours before.

Huon News 13^th August 1918

DEVLYN.-On August 11, 1918, at Roseneath Military Hospital, Private Victor Powell, youngest dearly loved son of J. P. and Jessie A. Devlyn, Postmistress of Cygnet, aged 18 years. (Two brothers still on Active service.)

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