Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Moore, Frederick William

He was born Gillingham England the son of Hannah Marion Stocks of Kingston Magna Gillingham Dorset England an orchardist living at Kettering and who enlisted Brighton Tasmania he embarked Hobart 20^th October 1914 on board “HMAT Geelong” with the 12^th Infantry Battalion.

He died 3^rd May 1915 at the Bombay General Hospital from wounds received on the Gallipoli Peninsula and was buried in the Chatby Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt, North Africa.

Private F. W. Moore, recently reported as killed in action at the Dardanelles was only 23 years of age and a native of Kingston Magna, in Dorset. Two of his brothers were in the Dorset Regiment and have been killed in the fighting in France in an engagement where one battalion of the Dorsets were nearly wiped out. Private Moore had been living at Kettering for a couple of years and was one of the first to volunteer from the Channel district.

The Examiner 5^th June 1915

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