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VARNEY, Foster Nepean
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | 2514 |
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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 |
Memorials: |
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