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Edward James PREVETT. Joseph CLEMENTS. Frederick George BURCHELL.

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PREVETT Edward James. Private, 2106, 1st/4th Royal Sussex Regiment. Died from wounds of sickness 15th September 1915,aged 21 years at sea or in Malta, while in action at Gallipoli. He was baptised on the 8th July 1894 at Cuckfield, Sussex, son Herbert and Alice Louisa Prevett, of 23 Western Road, Haywards Heath, Sussex .

CLEMENTS Joseph. Corporal, 496, D Squadron 6th Australian Light Horse, 4th Brigade. Died of his wounds, 13th September 1915 He was born at Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, England and enlisted at Liverpool, New South Wales on the 3rd December 1914. He was aged 24 years and 8 months and was a farmer by occupation. His father, William of Great Brickhill, Buckinghamshire was his next of kin. He had previously served three years with the Bedfordshire Yeomanry. Discharged to go to Australia. He embarked at Sydney on H.M.A.T. A29 Suevic on the 13th June 1915 bound for Gallipoli. On the 29th August 1915 he was stationed at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli Peninsula and was wounded on the 3rd September 1915 and treated at No3 Field Ambulance, then transferred the same day to 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station Anzac Cove, and again the same day invalided to Malta on Hospital Ship, Maheno. He was wounded by shrapnel to his scalp, chest, head, and compound fracture to left tibia. He died at Military Hospital Tigne, Malta at 8-5pm on the 13th September 1915 of wounds he received in action. He was laid to rest in Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta, by Reverend M.A. Farren the following day.

BURCHELL Frederick George. Private, 1614, 3rd East Anglian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, died 14th September 1915. Born in the parish of St James Essex and lived at Walthamstow, Essex. Son of Elizabeth who was granted a war gratuity on the 24th December 1915, revised on the 8th September 1919.

All at rest in Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta. Plot B Row X Grave 1
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