Joseph Alfred TREZISE

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TREZISE, Joseph Alfred

Service Number:	5197
Enlisted:	18 January 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	52nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia, 10 July 1894
Home Town:	Beaconsfield, West Tamar, Tasmania
Schooling:	Beaconsfield State School, Tasmania, Australia
Occupation:	Orchardist
Died:	Killed in action, Mouquet Farm, France, 4 September 1916, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Pozières British Cemetery Plot IV, Row A, Grave 37. DEARLY LOVED SON OF MR. & MRS. TREZISE BEACONSFIELD PEACE PERFECT PEACE
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

18 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5197, 12th Infantry Battalion
29 Mar 1916:	Involvement Private, 5197, 12th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
29 Mar 1916:	Embarked Private, 5197, 12th Infantry Battalion, RMS Orontes, Melbourne
4 Sep 1916:	Involvement Private, 5197, 52nd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 5197 awm_unit: 52nd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-09-04

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Joe Trezise left Australia during April 1916, and was reported missing at Mouquet Farm a bit over four months later. Joseph asked for his allotment pay, four shillings a day, not to go to his family, but to his “friend” Gladys Lockwood, perhaps his girlfriend. Gladys Lockwood died of consumption in 1923, aged 27.

Joseph Trezise’s remains were discovered in 1919 and he was reinterred in the Pozieres British Cemetery.

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