COLGRAVE, Tasman Allan
| Service Number: | 1060 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 April 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 26th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Evandale, Tasmania, Australia, 18 March 1893 |
| Home Town: | Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , 2 July 1985, aged 92 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Woronora Memorial Park, Sutherland, New South Wales |
| Memorials: | Evandale Municipality Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 13 Apr 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1060, 26th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 29 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 1060, 26th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 1060, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Brisbane | |
| 31 Oct 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1060, 26th Infantry Battalion, ex Suez to Melbourne per Aeanas (Heart Trouble) | |
| 8 Nov 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1060, 26th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Tasman Allan Colgrave (Service No:1060) enlisted in the AIF on 13 April 1915 and embarked with 26th Infantry Battalion from Brisbane on 20 June 1915 on board HMAT Ascanius. In October that year Private Colgrave was evacuated from Suez with heart trouble, returning on board the Aeanas, and was Discharged on 8 November 1916 as medically unfit. According to his Service Records (NAA) 'When he enlisted he had a mother and five children (half siblngs) under the age of sixteen dependant on him'. Tasman applied for re-enlistment in the AIF in Brisbane QLD in October 1918 (Trove).
Tasman was born in 1893 in Evandale Tasmania to single woman Frances (Fanny) Isabella Colgrave (b1869 in Morven, Tasmania) - his father is not known. In 1901 at Evandale, Fanny started living with William Edward Jones (b1844 at Guernsey in the Channel Islands) - William arrived in Hobart, Tasmania in 1853 on board the Coromandel. William, a Cabinetmaker, died in 1912 and Fanny was left to raise the six surviving children (of eight) with assistance from Tasman.
Tasman worked as a Labourer and Motor Driver in Launceston, Tasmania prior to his enlistment. Following his Discharge in Brisbane QLD, Tasman married in 1917 - Harriet Young Coles (b1897 in Gladstone, QLD). In the 1920's Tasman and Harriet lived at Allora on the Darling Downs in QLD where Tasman was a Motor Mechanic before moving to New South Wales in the 1930's/1940s - Sydney and Woolongong - where Tasman worked as a Motor Mechanic and Labourer. In the 1950s Tasman was a Nurseryman in Maitland NSW before the couple retired to Sydney in the early 1960's. Harriet died in 1980 and Tasman in 1985.
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