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Eric Marsden HASSALL

Regimental number301
Date of birth7 June 1894
Place of birthBroken Hill, New South Wales
SchoolKing's College, Goulburn, New South Wales
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll24 August 1914
Place of enlistmentSydney, New South Wales
Rank from Nominal RollGunner
Unit from Nominal Roll1st Field Artillery Brigade
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularJoined the Bank of New South Wales, Yass branch, 26 October 1911. Transferred to Newtown branch, December 1911; to Inspector's Department, Head Office, Sydney, January 1913; North Sydney branch, February 1914. 'He was the great-great-grandson of the well-known pioneers Roland Hassall (1798) and Revd. Samuel Marsden (1794).' (details from father)
FateKilled in Action 12 November 1916
Place of death or woundingFlers, France
Age at death22
Age at death from cemetery records22
Place of burialBulls Road Cemetery (Plot II, Row K, Grave No. 21), Flers, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
11
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Thomas and Florence Hewitt HASSALL, 'Hawthorn', Cremorne, New South Wales
Sources'Bank of New South Wales Roll of Honour' (Sydney, 1921), p. 177.

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