LUSCOMBE, Keith Taylor
| Service Number: | 2284 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 July 1915, Liverpool, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 20th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Muswellbrook, NSW, August 1896 |
| Home Town: | Marrickville, Marrickville, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Sydney Grammar School |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 27 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Albert Communal Extension Cemetery I K 9, Albert Communal Cemetery Extension, Albert, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2284, 20th Infantry Battalion, Liverpool, NSW | |
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| 30 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 2284, 20th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 2284, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney | |
| 27 Jul 1916: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 2284, 20th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2284 awm_unit: 20 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-07-27 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Robert Snelling Taylor & Mary Eleanor LUSCOMBE
Of Petersham Rd, Marrietville, NSW
DIED OF WOUNDS.
LANCE-CORPORAL K. T. LUSCOMBE. Lance-Corporal Keith Taylor Luscombe has died of wounds received in France. He was at Gallipoli. He is an old Sydney Grammar School boy, 20 years of age, and the third son of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. T. Luscombe, of Marrickville, who have two other sons at the front, one of whom, Broughton, has been wounded.
Lance-Corporal LUSCOMBE.— Mr. and Mrs. Luscombe, of Petersham Road, Marrickville, have heard that their third son (Lance-Corporal Keith Taylor Luscombe) died of wounds on July 27 whilst fighting in France, His two brothers are there, and the eldest (Broughton) was also lately wounded. He would have been 20 years of age on August 4, and was an old Sydney Grammar School boy. He had about two months at Gallipoli , and on his return to Egypt passed his exams, as a machine gunner. He had been fighting in France since early in April.
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