Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Seabrook, Eric Charles

Born 8^th January 1893 Hobart Tasmania the son of Alfred Charles and Harriet Emma Seabrook (nee Kennedy) an orchardist he embarked Fremantle 25^th June 1915 on board “HMAT Wandilla” with the 12^th Infantry Battalion.

He was killed in action 4^th September 1916 at Moquet Farm and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.

DEATH OF PRIVATE ERIC SEABROOK

Mr Kennedy received a letter yesterday stating that his nephew Private Eric Seabrook who had been reported missing for some weeks in the fighting in France had been killed in a trench by a high explosive shell on 3^rd September. Mr Kennedy’s brother was in action in the same engagement in a different battalion both battalions fighting side by side. They were ordered to take an important position from the enemy in which they succeeded. Private Seabrook and several of his mates were killed by a couple of shells and a number of other soldiers were seriously wounded in the same incident.

A Hobart soldier Private Woolley in a letter to his mother on Wednesday confirmed the sad news. Woolley was alongside Seabrook when the latter was killed. Eric was a promising young fellow and was well known and respected in Hobart and the Huon. He played in district A grade cricket in Hobart and was latterly a valued member of the Glen Huon team. Private H Kennedy writing under date 6^th September from a French hospital said he expected to be out and in the firing line again in about a week

Huon Times 3^rd November 1916

Two Tasmanian soldiers Egypt Clem Woolley and Eric Seabrook

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