Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Parker, Albert William

Born 18^th January 1891Mersey Tasmania to Lawrence and Susan Parker (nee Batt) a labourer who departed Hobart 20^th October 1914 on board “HMAT Geelong”

Sgt Parker was with the 52^nd Battalion when he was killed in action by a shell at Moquet Farm and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.

Sergt. A. W. Parker of Dulverton who was killed in action on September 4th enlisted on August 21, 1914 and was amongst the first four Tasmanians to volunteer. After six weeks training in the Brighton camp, he was transferred to Claremont and sailed from Tasmania on October Ist, 1914. While on the way to Egypt he witnessed the sinking of the German raider Emdes at Cocos Island. He was in the first landing at the Dardanelles and stayed there till the evacuation. He landed in France on June 9, 1915, and had barely three months in the firing line there before he was killed. A good rifle shot and axeman, he was a favorite with all who knew him.

The North Western Advocate 30^th May 1917

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