Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Riley, Joseph

Born 1867 Lancashire England the son of Joseph and Mary Riley (nee Palmer) and married to Jean Elizabeth Blaik, a miner who enlisted Claremont Tasmania he embarked Brisbane 17^th August 1915 on board “HMAT Shropshire” with the 26^th Infantry Battalion.

He died 6^th October 1917 at the 2^nd Canadian Clearing Station from a shell wound and fracture to the right thigh and was buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Lijssenthoek, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

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