Foster Nepean VARNEY

VARNEY, Foster Nepean

Service Number: 2514
Enlisted: 24 August 1917, Enlisted at Sale, Victoria
Last Rank: Trooper
Last Unit: Australian Corps Headquarters
Born: Lindenow, Victoria, Australia, 1898
Home Town: Bairnsdale, East Gippsland, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Mentone, Victoria, Australia, 10 April 1976, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Cheltenham Memorial Park, Victoria, Australia
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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Foster Nepean Varney and Ellen Jane Varney nee Campbell of Bairnsdale, Victoria. Foster briefly served in WW1 but was discharged after a couple of months as medically unfit.

Commenced return to Australia on 18 July 1919 aboard HT Takada disembarking on 7 September 1919

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal 

During 1925c Foster married Catherine Paula Bourke in Victoria