Fernleigh George COLEMAN

COLEMAN, Fernleigh George

Service Number: 2766
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
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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.