Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

DEATH OF A TROOPER.
HOBART, Monday.
Trooper Joseph O'Callaghan, of the Queenstand contingent, who was taken to the hospital from the troopship Chicago, suffering with pneumonia, succumibed at the institution shortly before 1 o'clock this morning.

MILITARY FUNERAL.-On Wednesday afternoon, the deceased Queensland trooper, Joseph O'Callaghan, whose death from pneumonia occurred in the Hobart General Hospital on Monday last, "was  accorded a military funeral. The coffin, which was draped with the Union Jack, and bore some floral tributes, was placed on a gun-carnage, drawn by two black horses. The firing party comprised members of "A." Company, First Battalion, Rifle Regiment. As the cortege, in charge of Lieut.-Col. Reid, moved away from the hospital for the Queenborough cemetery, Chopin's "Dead March" was played by the Headquarters Band. Captain G. Steward, as I representing the Government, attended I the funeral. A party of police, under Sub-Inspector Connor, also attended. The burial service was impressively performed by the Rev. A. G. Taylor. Deceased was 28 years of age, and had been a resident of Gympie. He was proceeding to South Africa in the transport Chicago when severely attacked with pneumonia, and was admitted to the Hobart Hospital on March 24, where every attention was paid him.