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BIGNELL, Edwin
Personal Details
Service Number: | 2781 |
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Enlisted: | 27 July 1915, Place of Enlistment, Brisbane, Queensland. |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 9th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Coomera, Queensland, Australia, 28 October 1892 |
Home Town: | Upper Coomera, Gold Coast, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Dairyman |
Died: | Coomera, Queensland, Australia, 14 May 1946, aged 53 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Coomera Cemetery, Queensland |
Memorials: |
Service History
World War 1 Service
27 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2781, 9th Infantry Battalion, Place of Enlistment, Brisbane, Queensland. | |
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1 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 2781, 9th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ayrshire embarkation_ship_number: A33 public_note: '' | |
1 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 2781, 9th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ayrshire, Sydney | |
4 Dec 1915: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2781, 9th Infantry Battalion, Returned to Australia. Tuberculosis. |
Personal Stories
Logan Village Museum
Edwin was born 28th October 1882 at Coomera and Died 14th May 1946 in Brisbane. He is buried Foxwell's Cemetery Coomera. His parents were Samuel Stanley and Mary Ann nee Levely.
Edwin married Emilie Muriel nee Viney.
He is remembered in the Logan Village Museum Roll as he is a descendant of a Tamborine Pioneer Family.
Submitted 23 April 2018 by Coralyn Cowin