Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Parsonage, Joshua

Born 15^th September 1894 Ulverstone Tasmania the son of William and Johanna Parsonage (nee Keogh) a labourer he embarked Hobart 8^th August 1916 on board “HMAT Ballarat” with the 40^th Infantry Battalion.

He died 4^th January 1917 at the 2^nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station of gunshot wounds to the jaw, hands, legs, buttock and arms and was buried in the Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck, Nord, France.

TASMANIAN CASUALTIES

Mr. James Parsonage, Gunn's Plains has received letters from Major L. H. Payne in which he expresses the sympathy of officers and men of B Co at the death of Pte. J Parsonage who was killed in action on January 3, 1917. Major Payne speaks in high terms of the manner in which the deceased soldier carried out his duties. Mr. Parsonage also received a letter from the Roman Catholic chaplain, who said Pte. Parsonage died in a hospital six miles from the firing line and was the first Catholic boy of the 40th to be killed in action.

The North West Advocate 22^nd May 1917

Photo Courtesy Jim Rouse jim@40th-bn.org

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