Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Temple, Tracey James

Born 5^th March 1886 Launceston Tasmania to James and Ellen Temple (nee Tracey) a packer who embarked Melbourne 29^th December 1015 on board “HMAT Demosthenes” with the 8^th Infantry Battalion.

He died 31^st December 1917 on the field from gas poisoning and was buried in the Dranoutre Military Cemetery, Belgium.

The life of Private Tracey James Temple, third son of Mrs. and the late Mr. James Temple, of 136 Coppin street, went out with the old year when he died of gas poisoning on December 31, after over two years' continuous service. He was an old Central S.S. boy, and played for some time with the Burnley and East Richmond Football Club. Enlisting on September 13, 1915 (on the fifth attempt), he spent three months in camp before he sailed, shortly after Christmas. Then followed a period of waiting and watching in the burning desert by the Suez Canal when an occasional skirmish with the wandering bands of Bedouins was the only excitement. He was transferred to France, and straight away plunged into one of the fiercest battles of the war-the Somme engagement. Prior to enlisting he was for some years in the employ of Messrs. Rylands and Sons, Flinders-lane.

Richmond Guardian 16^th February 1918

Photo Courtesy Carl Temple

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