Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Payne Lewis Albert

P07550.001 Hand-coloured composite portrait of brothers 4571 Private (Pte) Emanuel Keith Payne, 12th Battalion (left), and 1726 Pte Lewis Albert Payne, 25th Battalion. Both farmers of Meander, Tasmania, Emanuel and Lewis Payne enlisted for service with the 1st AIF in 1915. Pte Emanuel Payne embarked with the 14th Reinforcements from Melbourne aboard HMAT Warilda on 8 February 1916. Shortly after transferring to the 52nd Battalion, he was severely wounded in action in France and returned to Australia in December 1917. Pte Lewis Payne embarked with the 2nd Reinforcements from Sydney aboard HMAT Shropshire on 20 August 1915. While serving in France, he was killed in action on 29 July 1916, aged 30. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.

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