WW1
Mahoney Timothy Born 23rd January 1887 Launceston Tasmania the son of Cornelius Mahoney a miner he embarked Brisbane 25th May 1915 on board “HMAT Ascanius) with the 7th Field Ambulance and the rank of Sergeant. He served at Gallipoli where he contracted enteric fever and on the 3rd January 1916 returned to Australia on the hospital ship “Ulysses” for a three month change. The second time overseas he embarked 30th October 1917 on board “HMAT Aeneas” with the 40th Infantry Battalion and the rank of 2nd Lieutenant bound for France. He was killed in action 30th August 1918 at Clery Copse in France where he was hit by a bullet to the head. His body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial France. It was with very general regret that the news of the death of Lieut. T. ('Snowy) Mahoney was received in Devonport. Ho was killed in action in France at the end of August, after going back the second time. He had a successful military career, and was regarded as one of the most promising of young officers, and one who would lead his men anywhere, utterly regardless of danger as far as he was concerned. Before the outbreak of war he was one of the Coast's best-known footballers and a pillar of the Mersey Club. The North Westerm Advocate
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