Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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LEE, CHARLES JAMES

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Studio portrait of 162 Private (Pte) Charles James Lee, 12th Battalion, of Longford, Tasmania. With three years service with the 93rd Infantry, Citizens Military Forces (CMF) before enlisting on 20 August 1914, Pte Lee left Australia for Egypt in October 1914. Having landed at Gallipoli as part of the first wave attack on 25 April 1915, Pte Lee was promoted to Corporal (Cpl) in July, and wounded in the right thigh during the attack on Lone Pine on 7 August 1915. He was evacuated to the hospital ship HMHS Sicilia, but died of wounds seven days later, aged 20, and was buried at sea.

It was the sad duty of the Reverend H. B Trebilco last week to convey the news to Mr and Mrs J E Lee that their only son Corporal Charles Lee had died of wounds received on the 12^th inst at Gallipoli. Corporal Lee, before he volunteered, held a responsible position in the Railway Department where he was highly respected and deservedly popular. He was one of the first to volunteer and left Tasmania with the First Expeditionary Force. Only a few weeks back Mrs Lee lost her father unexpectedly also an uncle. Three of the six grandsons of the late Mr Isaiah Briggs have enlisted, and the only ones so far that have been in the firing line have laid down their lives for King and Country – Corporal Guy Briggs, Gunner Athol Parry and Corporal Chas Lee

The Weekly Courier 2^nd September 1915

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