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COLEMAN, Fernleigh George
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | 2766 |
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Enlisted: | 3 July 1915, Melbourne, Victoria |
Last Rank: | Corporal |
Last Unit: | 14th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Plymouth, England, 1880 |
Home Town: | Eaglehawk, Greater Bendigo, Victoria |
Schooling: | St Arnaud School |
Occupation: | Miner/Labourer |
Died: | Died of Wounds, Mouquet Farm, France, 13 August 1916 |
Cemetery: |
Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension Plot 7, Row B, Grave 53 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, South Melbourne Great War Roll of Honor |
Biography contributed
Fernleigh was born as Fernley George COLEMAN in Plymouth, England in 1880
His parents were Edward Bennett COLEMAN & Sarah Jane Pearce BONE who married in Camelford, UK in 1876
He married Elizabeth HIGGS in Victoria in 1905
Biography
Mortally wounded at Mouquet Farm, Pozieres on 13 Aug 1916, by shrapnel whilst engaged in digging out some of his mates, who had been buried by a shell explosion.