Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Gadsden, Edwin George

Born Cheltenham Victoria but enlisted Claremont Tasmania a labourer who embarked Brisbane 29^th June 1915 on board “HMAT Aeneas” with the 26^th Infantry Battalion. He served in the Gallipoli campaign, Greece France and then Belgium.

Sgt Gadsden was serving with the 4^th Machine Gun Company at Messines when he was hit in the head by a piece of shell and killed instantly on the 16^th August 1917. He remains were later reinterred in the Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Belgium.

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