[Editor: Extracts from the “Deaths” notices, regarding Australian military personnel, published in The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, NSW), 4 November 1914.]
Deaths.
CHISHOLM. — Died of wounds in France on August 27, Lieutenant Malcolm Chisholm, of the East Lancashire Regiment, aged 22, eldest son of Doctor William Chisholm, of Macquarie-street.
RIEDY. — November 2, 1914, of pneumonia, at Garrison Hospital, Victoria Barracks, Robert Norbert (Bob), dearly-loved youngest son of Christina Riedy, Marshall-street, Manly, and the late William Riedy, R.I.P. Interred at Waverley November 3, 1914.
Source:
The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, NSW), 4 November 1914, p. 10
Similar notices for Malcolm Chisholm were published in:
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 12 November 1914, p. 1 [in the “Deaths” section]
The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic.), 21 November 1914, p. 1152 [in the “Deaths” section]
Editor’s notes:
Lieutenant William Malcolm Chisholm, known as Malcolm, was the first Australian to be killed in World War One; however, he was serving with a British regiment, not with an Australian military unit (his family had moved to England in 1910).
R.I.P. = an abbreviation of the Latin phrase “requiescat in pace” (or, in the plural, “requiescant in pace”), meaning “rest in peace”; commonly used in funeral notices, on gravestones, and with other items relating to death
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