Rank Quartermaster Sergeant, Unit Fourth (Second Imperial Bushmen) Contingent, Tas, Service Number 193; Service Colonial Military Forces Cause of Death: Died of disease.
Son of Harry Lyne and Sarah Lillias Lyne (nee Hume) and had been working for some years in the Bank of Australasia before joining the company.
He joined as a trooper but before leaving was made corporal and other promotions speedily followed. When the column was broken up and the Tasmanians attached to another, Douglas Lyne was allowed to go with Colonel Cooper, Army Service Corps, and retained his rank in Colonel Jervis' column on extra service pay, under Lieutenant Cox up to the 22nd of April, on which date he left to join the Tasmanians who were mobilising to return home. On the 26th he was removed from a troop train at Norval's Point, suffering from enteric fever, and in a very dangerous condition. He succumbed on the 4th of May and was buried the following day.
Son of Harry Lyne and Sarah Lillias Lyne (nee Hume) and had been working for some years in the Bank of Australasia before joining the company.
He joined as a trooper but before leaving was made corporal and other promotions speedily followed. When the column was broken up and the Tasmanians attached to another, Douglas Lyne was allowed to go with Colonel Cooper, Army Service Corps, and retained his rank in Colonel Jervis' column on extra service pay, under Lieutenant Cox up to the 22nd of April, on which date he left to join the Tasmanians who were mobilising to return home. On the 26th he was removed from a troop train at Norval's Point, suffering from enteric fever, and in a very dangerous condition. He succumbed on the 4th of May and was buried the following day.
Rank Quartermaster Sergeant, Unit Fourth (Second Imperial Bushmen) Contingent, Tas, Service Number 193; Service Colonial Military Forces Cause of Death: Died of disease.
Son of Harry Lyne and Sarah Lillias Lyne (nee Hume) and had been working for some years in the Bank of Australasia before joining the company.
He joined as a trooper but before leaving was made corporal and other promotions speedily followed. When the column was broken up and the Tasmanians attached to another, Douglas Lyne was allowed to go with Colonel Cooper, Army Service Corps, and retained his rank in Colonel Jervis' column on extra service pay, under Lieutenant Cox up to the 22nd of April, on which date he left to join the Tasmanians who were mobilising to return home. On the 26th he was removed from a troop train at Norval's Point, suffering from enteric fever, and in a very dangerous condition. He succumbed on the 4th of May and was buried the following day.
Son of Harry Lyne and Sarah Lillias Lyne (nee Hume) and had been working for some years in the Bank of Australasia before joining the company.
He joined as a trooper but before leaving was made corporal and other promotions speedily followed. When the column was broken up and the Tasmanians attached to another, Douglas Lyne was allowed to go with Colonel Cooper, Army Service Corps, and retained his rank in Colonel Jervis' column on extra service pay, under Lieutenant Cox up to the 22nd of April, on which date he left to join the Tasmanians who were mobilising to return home. On the 26th he was removed from a troop train at Norval's Point, suffering from enteric fever, and in a very dangerous condition. He succumbed on the 4th of May and was buried the following day.
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