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Everard Digges La Touche

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Additional information
Gender
M
Rank (legacy)
2nd Lieutenant
Unit at embarkation
6th Reinforcements, 2nd Battalion
Service (legacy)
AIF
Conflicts
World War 1
Campaign (legacy)
Dardanelles
Fate
KIA 8.8.1915 at Lone Pine, aged 32
Veteran Notes/Bio

Born 14 March 1883 at Burrendale, Newcastle, County Down, Ireland [Birth certificate: 1883 March qtr Kilkeel 1 547 (IRL)]

Educated: Bedford Grammar School, England and Trinity College, Dublin: B.A. 1904. M.A. 1908. Litt.D. 1910.

Married; Clerk in Holy Orders (Clergyman), of Hornsby, Sydney NSW

Next of Kin listed as: Wife; Eva Digges La Touche (nee King), of 'The Rectory', Miltown, County Kerry, Ireland

Photos of 2nd Lieutenant Digges La Touche are known to exist in the following locations: Anzac Memorial p47. Town & Country Journal 10 Mar 1915 p29. Sydney Mail 1 Sep 1915 p37

 

National Australian Archives record citation NAA: B2455, DIGGES LA TOUCHE E

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