Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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PETTERSON, FRANK OLOF

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Group portrait of Battery staff of the 9th Battery, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade (3 FAB), seated on horses in front of the sphinx and pyramids. Identified left to right :- 1983 Edgar Edward Ernest Evans; 1947 James (Jim) Bayley; 2009 Vivian Leary; either 1969 Harold Crawford or 1970 Norman Crawford (later killed in action on 4 September 1918); either 2019 Victor George Medhurst or 2020 Philip Aubrey Medhurst; 2028 Louis Dale Orchard; 1982 William Keith Eltham; 1951 Cecil Albert Blakney; 1936 Sergeant Walter Henry Pridmore; Lieutenant Price Jacob Morgan; 2600 Bombardier (Bdr) Albert Arthur Orchard; 2006 Gunner John Garnet Knight; 2059 James Hoskins Clennett; 2058 Raymond James Brownell [later Air Commodore during the Second World War]; 2033 Frank Olof Petterson (later killed in action 14 November 1916 at Flers, France); 1981Robert Edwards (later died of wounds 6 October 1917). Original caption reads `Our Battery staff or Morgan's Circus'.

BURNIE SOLDIER'S DEATH.

Yesterday morning Mr. C. Pctterson of South Burnie received intimation from the Defence Department that his sccond son, Sargt. F. O. Pettcrson had been killed in action in France on November 14. Deceased was a member of the Third Field Artillery, and went through the Gallipoli campaign. He was a young man, and well known at Burnie.

The North Western Advocate 6^th December 1916

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