Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Pinel Phillip John

Born Launceston Tasmania the son of John and Ada Elizabeth Pinel (nee Field) of 61 Lyttleton Street, Launceston a clerk with the Municipal Council he embarked Adelaide 10^th February 1917 on board “HMAT Seang Bee” with the 12^th Infantry Battalion.

On arrival in England he attended a 10 day specialist course of instruction and qualified as “very good” three months later he attended the Lewis Gun School and qualified “very good and distinguished”

He was admitted to the 13^th Australian Field Ambulance on the 27^th March 1918 with a gunshot wound to the shoulder which penetrated the thorax and died the next day at the 3^rd Canadian Stationary Hospital. He was buried in the Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No 1, France.

Mr and Mrs John Pinel of Lyttleton Street Launceston have received the news of the death from wounds on March 28^th in France of their eldest son Phillip. He died at the 3^rd Canadian Stationary Hospital but there is no word yet as to how and when he was wounded. He left Tasmania in February 1917 and after four or five months training on Salisbury Plain was put into the signalling school, passed the classification early in December taking second place with an average of 97.5 marks and was finally drafted for France in March of this year.

The Weekly Courier 2^nd May 1918

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