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TRETHEWEY, EDWIN CLIFFORD
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Trethewey of Elphin road Launceston received by cable yesterday the news that their second son Gunner Clifford Edwin Trethewey had died of wounds received in action in France on August 11. The deceased soldier was 30 years of age and formerly resided at Burnie. He was a member of the staff of the National Bank at Burnie and Zeehan, and subsequently entered the Commonwealth Bank, which he left to join the A.I.F. After serving with his battery for 14 months, Gunner Trethewey spent 12 months in the offices of the Commonwealth Bank in London. He only recently rejoined his comrades in France. His brother, Staff Sergeant-Major Harold Trethewey, has been on active service for nearly four years; formerly an officer of the National Bank at Burnie and Sheffield, he enlisted in Victoria shortly after the outbreak of war and was wounded at Gallipoli. The North Western Advocate 21st August 1918
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Portrait of Edwin Clifford Trethewey who
served in the First World War as 8218 Gunner (Gnr)
Trethewey, 17th Battery, 6th Field Artillery Brigade, of
Launceston, Tas. Gnr Trethewey enlisted on 17 September
1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Botanist on
24 November 1915. He died of wounds on 11 August 1918,
near Amiens in France, aged 31 years.