Duncan Bertram CORFE MC

CORFE, Duncan Bertram

Service Numbers: Officer, 516
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
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World War 1 Service

13 Nov 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, Officer, Tunnelling Companies, Liverpool, NSW
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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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

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).

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