Avard Borden NEWCOMBE

NEWCOMBE, Avard Borden

Service Number: 4116
Enlisted: 17 February 1916, Townsville, Queensland
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 31st Infantry Battalion
Born: Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1869
Home Town: Port Moresby, National Capital District, Papua, Papua New Guinea
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Miner
Died: Acute Meningitis, HMAT Boonah, United Kingdom, 7 November 1916
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Buried at sea
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton
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World War 1 Service

17 Feb 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4116, 31st Infantry Battalion, Townsville, Queensland
21 Oct 1916: Involvement Private, 4116, 31st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Boonah embarkation_ship_number: A36 public_note: ''
21 Oct 1916: Embarked Private, 4116, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Boonah, Brisbane
7 Nov 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4116, 31st Infantry Battalion, Buried at sea

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Avard Borden NEWCOMBE was born in Bridgetown,  Nova Scotia, Canada in 1869

His parents were Leonard NEWCOMBE & Annie TAYLOR who married in Kings, Nova Scotia in 1866

He had been working as a Miner in the Yodda Goldfields in Papua New Guinea for 15 years prior to coming to Queensland where he enlisted in Townsville on 17th February, 1916 and embarked with the 31st Infantry Battalion, 10th reinforcements on the ship HMAT Boonah from Brisbane

Avard took ill on board and was admitted to the ships hospital but died from acute meningitis on 7th November, 1916 - he was buried at sea

His name is memorialised on the Australian War Memorial and the Hollybrook Memorial in Southampton, England

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