CARR VILLA GENERAL CEMETERY
Launceston
Tasmania
Australia
GPS Coordinates Latitude: -41.47033 Longitude: 147.16616
Location Information
Launceston is in the north of Tasmania, and is town and seaport at the mouth of the river Tamar. It stands at the junction of five highways; the East and West Tamar Highways, the Tasman, Midland and Bass Highways.
The cemetery is in Carr Villa Street, a quarter of a mile from the Midland Highway, and is about 4 miles from Launceston G.P.O.
Historical Information
Carr Villa General Cemetery contains 16 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 39 from the Second World War. Eighteen of the graves are together in a small war graves plot which is locally known as the War Cemetery.
Launceston is in the north of Tasmania, and is town and seaport at the mouth of the river Tamar. It stands at the junction of five highways; the East and West Tamar Highways, the Tasman, Midland and Bass Highways.
The cemetery is in Carr Villa Street, a quarter of a mile from the Midland Highway, and is about 4 miles from Launceston G.P.O.
Historical Information
Carr Villa General Cemetery contains 16 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 39 from the Second World War. Eighteen of the graves are together in a small war graves plot which is locally known as the War Cemetery.
3183 Gunner
Harold Hedon Foot (Left)
10th Brigade, Australian Field Artillery
14th June 1918.
Plot C. 359. (GRM/8*).
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Studio portrait of 3183 Private (Pte) Harold Hoedon Foot (left) and 2493 Pte Arthur William (Barney) Orchard. Pte Foot, 10th Reinforcements, 15th Battalion, of Launceston, Tas, enlisted on 4 August 1915, and embarked from Melbourne, Vic, aboard HMAT Port Lincoln on 16 October 1916. He died on 14 June 1918, of wounds received at Messines, France, aged 26. Pte Orchard, 7th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion, of Launceston, Tas, enlisted on 17 March 1915, and embarked from Adelaide, SA, aboard HMAT Kanowna on 24 June 1915. He died of wounds, aged 21, on 15 July 1917 in Belgium, and is buried in New Dickebusch Cemetery Extension.
Harold Hedon Foot (Left)
10th Brigade, Australian Field Artillery
14th June 1918.
Plot C. 359. (GRM/8*).
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Studio portrait of 3183 Private (Pte) Harold Hoedon Foot (left) and 2493 Pte Arthur William (Barney) Orchard. Pte Foot, 10th Reinforcements, 15th Battalion, of Launceston, Tas, enlisted on 4 August 1915, and embarked from Melbourne, Vic, aboard HMAT Port Lincoln on 16 October 1916. He died on 14 June 1918, of wounds received at Messines, France, aged 26. Pte Orchard, 7th Reinforcements, 12th Battalion, of Launceston, Tas, enlisted on 17 March 1915, and embarked from Adelaide, SA, aboard HMAT Kanowna on 24 June 1915. He died of wounds, aged 21, on 15 July 1917 in Belgium, and is buried in New Dickebusch Cemetery Extension.
