Albert George COFFEY

COFFEY, Albert George

Service Number: NX115421
Enlisted: 11 September 1942
Last Rank: Staff Sergeant
Last Unit: Not yet discovered
Born: Bogan Gate, Parkes, New South Wales, Australia, 13 October 1914
Home Town: Griffith, Griffith, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Pymble, New South Wales, Australia, 1 July 2002, aged 87 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW
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11 Sep 1942: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, NX115421
23 Nov 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Staff Sergeant, NX115421

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Staff Sergeant Albert George Coffey (Service No:NX15421) enlisted in the Australian Army in September 1942 and was attached to Kembla Coast Artillery when he was Discharged in November 1945.

Albert was born in 1914 in Bogan Gates, Parkes NSW. His father - Joseph William Coffee (b1890 in Moama, NSW) was a Labourer in 1912 in Parkes NSW when he married Cecilia Vincent Flynn (b1892 in Condobolin, NSW). Joseph and Cecilia lived in Moama and Griffiths NSW where Joseph was a Railways Employee - a Fettling Ganger.

Albert was a Labourer in Griffiths NSW when he enlisted in September 1942 and in November in Sydney NSW he married Margaret Lillian Clarke (b1917 in London, England) - Margaret was working in Coogee as a Tailoress and had lived in Griffiths NSW with her family following their immigration in the 1930s.

The couple settled in Sydney NSW, and Albert worked as a Prison Warder and Public Servant. Margaret died in 1996 and Albert in 2002.

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