Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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McPherson, John Duncan

Bon 3^rd April 1885 Don Tasmania the son of John Stewart and Charlotte Elizabeth McPherson (nee Denney) a farmer he embarked Hobart 20^th October 1914 on board “HMAT Geelong” with the 12^th Infantry Battalion.

Served on the Gallipoli Peninsula where he was wounded twice and later transferred to the Wandsworth Hospital in England with general debility. In August 1916 he rejoined his battalion in France.

He was killed in action 6^th April 1917 and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Villers-Bretonneux Area, France.

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