Guy Winston TERRY

TERRY, Guy Winston

Service Number: 145
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
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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

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