Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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WING, ROBERT GEORGE

P07244.004

Studio portrait of 2531 Private (Pte) Robert George Wing, 15th Battalion, of Gunns Plains, Tas. Pte Wing, a farmer before enlisting on 4 June 1915, embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Orsova (A67) on 17 July 1915 with the 7th Reinforcements. He was killed in action on 9 August 1916 at the age of 19, and is buried in the Villers Bretonneux cemetery. His brother, 2408 Allan John Joseph Wing, was also killed in action, on 13 October 1917.

TASMANIAN CASUALTIES

Mrs. E. J. Wing of Gunn's Plains has received a letter from Private E. Watling concerning the death of her son Private R. G. (Bob.) Wing. Private Watling writes from Norfolk War Hospital, England, on September 15:-I expect by this time you have heard the sad news concerning your son (Private R. G. Wing). I was wounded on August 8 whilst we were attacking the Germans at Pozieres. Your lad got through that charge all right but was killed on August 9. I feel it is my duty to write you this, as he and I were like brothers. We enlisted about the same time in Tasmania, and have been together ever since. I may tell you your boy was well liked by all in the battalion, and you can rest assured that he died doing his duty for King and country. I saw him about an hour before we charged. We were both on machine guns but not together, and he was just the same as ever. My two brothers were killed on Gallipoli, and my mother did not know for ten months after, and I think it is as well to know first as last. I also have another brother in France somewhere. So you can imagine the anxiety of my father and mother with two dead, one wounded, and another one in it somewhere. I got a bullet through my arm, causing me to lose the use of it. I am getting electrical treatment, so am hoping to have the use of it again some day. I have written this with my left hand; so I hope you can read it. I have one of Bob's photos and would not part with it for worlds,

Examiner Launceston 16^th November 1916

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