Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Mason, George Bernard

Born 1899 Barrington Tasmania the son of Sarah Ann Mason a labourer he embarked Melbourne 25^th October 1916 on board “HMAT Ulysses” with the 40^th Infantry Battalion.

He died 6^th October 1917 at the 2^nd Anzac Casualty main dressing station in Belgium from wounds received in the field and was buried in the Ypres Reservoir Cemetery

SOLDIER FRIENDSHIPS BROKEN

In reference to the death of her son at the, front Mrs. S. J. Mason, of Barrington, has received the following letter from Pte. Gordon Stokes 'Just a line in sympathy with you on the loss of your dear boy George. He was my best friend. We left dear old Tasmania together and have been always together, over here. I was with George and in the same shell hole when he got wounded. Four others were hit with the same shell. Poor Sergeant Rawson was killed. I got a bad shaking up and a slight wound. We got a stretcher and carried poor George to the dressing station, and he said to us, 'Well, lads, I think I've got a Blighty.' That was the last we saw of him. He was taken away by other stretcher-bearers out of the range of shells. On the 12th of October we were set the task of taking Passchendaele, and in that battle I was wounded in the right elbow, and came away. I did not hear anything of George while I was in hospital, but now I'm on sick furlough I went and inquired for George at Horseferry Road, and found out that he had passed away. This was a terrible shock to me, for George and I were always together. , He was a noble boy, and a very dear friend, and he died nobly, fighting for his country and so I ask you to accept my sympathy. It was a great loss in me and the other lads who survived those two terrible battles. Your loss will be great, and we all sympathise with you.'

The North Western Advocate 6^th February 1918

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