WORBOYS, Cyril Charles
| Service Number: | 1341 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 April 1915, Sydney |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 1st Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Naremburn, New South Wales, Australia, 17 November 1894 |
| Home Town: | North Sydney, North Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Fort Street High School and North Sydney Technical High School, New South Wales and Oxford University, England |
| Occupation: | Electrical Engineer and Telephone Mechanic |
| Died: | Natural causes, Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia, 30 December 1936, aged 42 years |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales Cremated |
| Memorials: | East Killara North Sydney Technical High School WW1 Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Apr 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 1341, 1st Field Company Engineers, Sydney | |
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| 15 Sep 1915: | Involvement Driver, 1341, 1st Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: SS Makarini embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 15 Sep 1915: | Embarked Driver, 1341, 1st Field Company Engineers, SS Makarini, Melbourne | |
| 5 Oct 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 1341, 1st Field Company Engineers, Medically unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Michael Silver
A well-known figure in electrical engineering circles in Sydney, Cyril Charles Worboys, aged 40, formerly of the Royal Air Force, died at the Masonic Hospital, Ashfield on Wednesday, December 30, 1936.
Born at Naremburn, North Sydney, he was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Worboys of Dobroyd Point He was educated at Fort Street school and served his time as an apprentice in electrical engineering.
Enlisting for service with the A.I.F. in April 1915, he married Nellie Cook the following August, shortly before embarking for overseas. They were to have a son, born in 1916, but divorced in 1929. He would marry Gladys Hilda Hill in 1936, just two weeks prior to his death.
He saw active service during the Great War with the 1st Field Company Engineers and after five months at Gallipoli he was invalided home. On his recovery he qualified as a cadet at Richmond aerodrome, then went back to England and completed his engineering education at Oxford University
He joined the Royal Air Force as a cadet, qualified with high honours, and received his commission. While acting as a flying Instructor in England he met with an accident a fortnight before the Armistice was signed and suffered a fractured spine which made him a permanent invalid.
Two years later he returned to Australia and was an inmate of the Canonbury A.J.C. Home, Potts Point for about 12 months, and then he went to live at Haberfield. Though paralysed, he took up engineering as a hobby, drove his own car, and did his work with the aid of a wheeled chair. He was keen on all kinds of sport including fishing.
His interest in politics centred in the Haberfield branch of the U.A.P. of which he was vice-president and he contested the pre-selection ballot for Ashfield, which was won by Mr Athol Richardson.
He was survived by his widow, Gladys and son from his first marriage.
The remains were cremated at Rookwood.
References:
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17301532
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article237974990
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