Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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PIESSE, JOHN STANLEY

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Studio portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) John Stanley Piesse, 93rd (Derwent) Infantry Regiment, Citizens Military Forces (CMF), of Hobart, Tas. On his right breast Lt Piesse is wearing a ribbon of the Coronation Medal 1911. On 26 July 1916 Piesse enlisted in the 40th Battalion as a private. He embarked with the 6th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Orsova on 6 December 1916. Although Private Piesse had held the rank of lieutenant in the CMF, and was temporarily promoted to acting sergeant major in the AIF, he was considered too young for a commission. On 13 October 1917 he was killed in action at Passchendaele, Belgium, aged 20. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, Belgium

Official intimation has been received by Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Piesse of Hobart that their son, John Stanley Piesse has been killed in action at Passchendaele on the Westcrn front. It will be remembered that in November last he was reported "missing since October 13," and it has now been definitely established that he was killed in action on that date during the heavy fighting then taking place. Young Piesse after leaving the Friends' High School was for a short time in the Hobart office of an insurance company, and left there in order to take a position in the City Engineers office. At the time of his enlistment he was a lieutenant in the local military forces and, though too young to obtain a commission in the A I F he soon rose to the rank of company sergeant-major, and left for the front with reinforcements for an infantry battalion He was very popular and had many friends who will deeply regret to hear that he has made the supreme sacrifice.

The Mercury 19^th February 1918

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