Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Eddington, Osmond Field

Born 1884 Hobart Tasmania the son of Thomas Henry and Louisa Eddington (nee Abel) and married to Laura Isabel Lloyd, an electrician he embarked Melbourne 30^th September 1916 on board “HMAT Palermo” with the 12^th Infantry Battalion.

He was killed in action 15^th April 1917 in France and is commemorated on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial.

News has been received of the death of Osmond Field (Bob) Eddington, killed in action in France on April 15. He was the youngest son of Mr. T. H. Eddington, of Church Street and grandson of the late Mr. John Eddington, Past Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge, also great-grandson of the late Judge, Hibbins. Although a young man he had travelled much., and been in several shipwrecks. After one wreck he was in the water for more than five hours, eventually being brought to shore by a negro, who had held him up the whole time. He was also in the great earthquake of San Francisco in 1906, and saved life there. Among other acts he rode for some miles with a mother and her few hours' old infant through the fires, after which he was sworn in as a special constable to guard the Mint.

The Mercury Hobart 11 May 1917

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