Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Haines, Algernon Stanley Cliffen

Born 1894 Ringarooma Tasmania the son of Frederick Francis and Mary Haines (nee Cliffen) a labourer he embarked Brisbane 5^th October 1915 on board “HMAT Warilda” with the 26^th Infantry Battalion.

He had been rejected three times because of teeth and eyesight before he was finally accepted.

He was a runner and was killed 26^th March 1917 at Lagnicourt in France by machine gun fire and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France

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