Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Webb, William Henry

The son of Isobel Webb of Balaclava Street Launceston, a butcher he embarked Melbourne 25^th October 1916 on board “HMAT Ulysses” with the 40^th Infantry Battalion.

He was on duty in the front line in a little signaling shed when a heavy trench mortar landed close to him at Warneton near Messines mortally wounding him on the 8^th December 1917. He is commemorated in the Berks Cemetery Extension, Belgium.

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