CORFE, Duncan Bertram
| Service Numbers: | Officer, 516 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 November 1914, Liverpool, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Tunnelling Companies |
| Born: | Christchurch, New Zealand, 23 November 1888 |
| Home Town: | Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Toowoomba Grammar School; University of Sydney |
| Occupation: | Civil and Mining Engineer |
| Died: | Neutral Bay, NSW, 25 August 1952, aged 63 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW Cremated |
| Memorials: | Toowoomba Grammar School WW1 Bravery Deeds, Toowoomba Grammar School WW1 Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 13 Nov 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, Officer, Tunnelling Companies, Liverpool, NSW | |
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| 21 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 516, 6th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Suevic, Sydney | |
| 21 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 516, 6th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Involvement Lieutenant, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Embarked Lieutenant, Tunnelling Companies, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Embarked Tunnelling Companies, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Involvement Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' |
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Son of Charels Carteret CORFE and Emily Hudson ne EVISON
Admitted 19th General Hospital, Alexandria, 25th August, Diphtheria. Corfe, D.B., Lieut. (C.C. Corfe, New Plymouth, father)
Information has been received by private cable that Lieut.-Colonel A.C. Corfe, D.S.O., Royal West Kent Regiment, who has been a prisoner in Germany since March 23rd, has arrived in England “looking splendid”; that Captain Anstruther Corfe, Australian Army Medical Corps, has come through the war in good health; and that Lieut. Duncan Corfe, of the Australian Tunnelling Corps, has been awarded the Military Cross.
OBITUARY
D. B. CORFE
MACLEAN, Thurs. — The death occurred in Sydney of D. B, Corfe, who was Harwood shire engineer from 1927. until 1939. He was a Sydney University graduate, a contemporary of Col.M. F. Bruxner, and was a railway construction engineer before coming to Maclean. He served in World War I. His father was headmaster of Toowoomba Grammar School, and later headmaster of Christ College, Christchurch (New Zealand).