Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Farrell Hubert John

Born 1888 Mersey Tasmania the son of Thomas and Mary Farrell (nee Brennan) a miner living on King Island he embarked Melbourne 27^th June 1916 on board “HMAT Barambah” with the 3 Divisional Ammunition Column

He was serving with the 6^th AFA Brigade Australian Field Artillery when he was killed in action 26^th July 1917 in Belgium and is commemorated in the Coxyde Military Cemetery, Belgium.

A King Island correspondent writes

Private Bert Farrell, the second son of the well known Tasmanian and King Island prospector, Thomas Farrell has made the supreme sacrifice. Bert was with his father when the veteran metal hunter discovered the outcrop of scheelite on the beach near the mouth of Grassy River. Father and son who were greatly attached to each other were inseparable until the call of the Empire reached the little hut in which they for years lived near the mine which they were convinced would some day attract worldwide attention. The parting was a great wrench for both father and son and the sad news of the son’s death naturally weighed heavily on the parent sympathy for whom went out from every point of the compass. Many tears were shed on King Island upon that sorrowful morning when the local public bell tolled out the sad news that one of the Island’s bonniest soldiers had made the supreme sacrifice. His relatives and many friends however find some consolation in the fact that his name will be handed down to posterity as one of the discoverers of scheelite in the Commonwealth of Australia.

The Weekly Courier 4^th October 1917

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