USHER, Noble Luke
| Service Number: | 18587 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 August 1917, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Warrant Officer Class 2 |
| Last Unit: | Staff Sergeant Dispensers |
| Born: | Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 25 December 1876 |
| Home Town: | South Melbourne, Port Phillip, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Chemist |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1941, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Burwood General Cemetery, Victoria, Australia Roman Catholic area 1, Section M, Grave 20 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Aug 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Staff Sergeant, 18587, Staff Sergeant Dispensers, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria | |
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| 29 Aug 1917: | Involvement 18587, Staff Sergeant Dispensers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '24' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Aug 1917: | Embarked 18587, Staff Sergeant Dispensers, HMAT Persic, Melbourne | |
| 2 Mar 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Warrant Officer Class 2, 18587, Staff Sergeant Dispensers, Discharged at the 3rd Military District |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Joseph Francis Usher and Margaret Usher nee Kidd of Ballarat, Victoria
Marital status given at enlistment was given as widower his wife Joan Helen Usher nee Sudgen who he married in 1907c died in 1915c
Next of kin given as his son Stanley Neville Usher of Corner Leopold Street and St Kilda Road, South Melbourne, Victoria.
While en route to the Western Front he disembarked on 24 September 1917 at Durban the transhipped aboard HT Caronia on 7 November 1917 for India via Bombay.
Commenced return to Australia via Bombay on 15 January 1919 aboard SS Themistocles disembarking on 5 February 1919 at Sydney for onward travel to Melbourne.
Medal: British War Medal
During 1919c Noble married Elsie Carr in Victoria