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He was 25 and the son of John Patrick and Catherine Cusack of Taralga. He was accepted for commemoration as Great War dead on 16th September 2017.

He returned to Australia on 16 June 1918 and was discharged from the A.I.F. on 28 September 1918.



Goulburn Evening Penny Post - Tuesday, May 18, 1920
"Sad Death at Taralga.
A Returned Soldier.
Our Taralga correspondent writes:- A very sad and sudden death occurred here on Friday morning, the victim being Corporal Aubrey Denis Cusack, a returned soldier who was visiting his friends in the district. On his arrival from the city, the deceased stayed alternately with his brothers at Stonequarry and on the Wednesday prior to his decease gave an exhibition of physical drill, remarking that he never felt better in his life. He was a magnificent type of manhood, 6ft high and built proportionately, weighing between 14 and 15 stone. On Thursday while he was driving in a sulky he had a fit and fell out but later became better and saw Dr. Lyons at Taralga who advised him to return to the Military Hospital at once. He decided to do so but before leaving he went to visit some friends - the Williams family - at Thalaba with whom he had lived for some time and from whom he had received much kindness. He was accompanied by his brother James and soon after reaching Bolong he was again attacked with fits and the brother, who is almost an invalid, had a very sad experience. He did not know the road, he could do nothing to assist his brother and it was nearly nine o'clock when Mr. Williams' place was reached. Aubrey, who seemed much better, went to bed but after a few hours he again went into convulsions and never regained consciousness, death ensuing before a doctor could be procured. The deceased was not yet 25 years of age. He volunteered for active service early in the war and in an engagement on the Western Front was dangerously wounded in the leg, the medical authorities holding out little hope of his recovery and his friends here mourned him as dead but he ultimately recovered and instead of being invalided home, as he was entitled to be, he obtained permission to go to the front again. At Bullecourt he received dreadful injuries from shrapnel to the head and face, the scalp being lifted and the brain exposed. In this dreadful condition he made his way for one and a half miles to the clearing station and again the doctors thought he could not live and advised his friends accordingly but a magnificent constitution and sober clean living again pulled him through and almost from his return he had been largely earning his own living, taking nearly anything that came along. A piece of bone, larger than a crown piece, had to be removed from his scalp and skin was grafted to protect the brain and there is little doubt with such frail protection there was some pressure or injury to the brain which caused death. The deceased was the second youngest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Cusack of Stonequarry. Messrs. T.F., John, James, Henry, Edward and Albert are brothers and Mesdames P. McAlister and W. McLelland and Misses A.J., Ethel and Beatrice are sisters. Mr. A.J. Cusack of Goulburn is an uncle. The funeral took place on Saturday, the remains being interred in the Catholic cemetery at Stonequarry, the Rev. Father Tarpy reading the burial service. The coffin was wrapped in the Union Jack and the body was conveyed to its lasting resting place by a party of returned soldiers - Messrs. George Cooley, Tom Johnson, Clem Smith, Jack Reeson and Alick Craig."