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Captain Brian Pockley - first NSW serviceman to die in WWI

Captain Brian Pockley was a doctor in the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC) and a member of the Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force. He was killed in action in the Battle of Bita Paka on German New Guinea on 11 September 1914, becoming the first New South Welshman and the first Australian officer to die in World War I.

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