
TERRY, Guy Winston
Service Number: | 145 |
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Enlisted: | 23 February 1916, Enlisted at Sydney |
Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
Last Unit: | 13th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Mount Stuart, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 19 January 1894 |
Home Town: | Mosman, Municipality of Mosman, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Albuera Street Primary School, Battery Point and New Norfolk State School, Tasmania, Australia |
Occupation: | Draughtsman |
Died: | Died of illness after operation for wounded hip, Munster, Westphalia, Germany, 22 May 1917, aged 23 years |
Cemetery: |
Hamburg Cemetery, Germany Plot 1V, Row H, Grave 6, Hamburg Cemetery, Hamburg, Germany |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Hobart Roll of Honour, Mosman St. Clements Anglican Church Great War Roll of Honour |
Biography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of William Simmons Terry and Charlotte Martha Terry of 52 Queen Street, Hobart, Tasmania
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
Also served in the Militia for 2 years
Biography contributed by Robert Wight
Born 19th January 1894 Hobart Tasmania to Winston Simmons and Charlotte Martha Terry (nee Devine) he was a draughtsman when he enlisted. He embarked Sydney 18th May 1916 on HMAT Demosthenes. He was listed as missing on April 11th 1917 with a post card later being received stating he was a prisoner of war.
He had been shot in the hip and died after an operation to remove the bullet.
Lance Corporal Terry died May 22, 1917 in a German hospital.
He was buried Hamburg Cemetery Germany.
Source: tasmanianwarcasualties.com