Frank Valentine Cecil COOMBS

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COOMBS, Frank Valentine Cecil

Service Numbers:	2602, 2606
Enlisted:	28 July 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	5th Pioneer Battalion
Born:	Richmond, Victoria, Australia, 1893
Home Town:	Orbost, East Gippsland, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Maffra, Victoria, Australia, 7 March 1957, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Maffra Public Cemetery
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World War 1 Service

28 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2602, 24th Infantry Battalion
27 Oct 1915:	Involvement Private, 2606, 24th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
27 Oct 1915:	Embarked Private, 2606, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
7 Apr 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2606, 5th Pioneer Battalion, per Trasos Montes
15 Jun 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2606, 5th Pioneer Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Frank was the youngest of five children of Robert Lewis Coombes (b1836 in London, England) and second wife Lily Grant Gibson (b1863 in Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria). Lily died in 1892 and Robert in 1894.

Frank - an orphan from two years of age - was a Labourer in Orbost, Victoria in 1914 when he enlisted in the AIF. He served in Egypt, Belgium and France as a Private (Service No:2602) with 24th Infantry Battalion and 4th and 5th Pioneer Battalions. He was Discharged in July 1919. Frank had listed Violette Standen as his NoK when he enlisted - and he and Violette (b1887 in Bombala, NSW) married in 1915.

Frank and Violette settled in Orbost where Frank was a Labourer before purchasing acerage for mixed farming in Drouin in 1921 under the Discharged Soldiers' Settlement Act 1917. By 1936 the family had returned to Maffra, where Frank was working as a Labourer. He died in 1957 and Violette in 1969.

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