Robert Arthur CORBY

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CORBY, Robert Arthur

Service Number:	PA903
Enlisted:	2 October 1939
Last Rank:	Able Seaman
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Semaphore, SA, 17 August 1914
Home Town:	Semaphore, Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia
Schooling:	Le Fevre Peninsula School
Occupation:	Employee of G.J. Coles & Co. Ltd.
Died:	Killed in Action, At Sea, 7 November 1941, aged 27 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Plymouth Naval Memorial to the Missing / Lost at Sea

World War 2 Service

2 Oct 1939:	Involvement Able Seaman, PA903
2 Oct 1939:	Enlisted Port Adelaide, SA
2 Oct 1939:	Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, PA903
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Albert Arthur and Mary Jane Corby, of Semaphore Park, South Australia.

NAVAL GUNNER FROM SEMAPHORE MISSING

Advice has been received by Mr. and Mrs. M.J. Corby of Bray Avenue, Semaphore Park, that their son Leading Gunner Robert Arthur Corby, 27 has been reported missing. Gunner Corby was born at Exeter and educated at Lefevre Peninsula School He has served nine years in the navy and was on the Naval Reserve while employed at G.J. Coles & Co. Ltd. He was on a merchant ship lost through enemy action last March but was rescued. His brother Gordon is with the A.I.F. and was at Tobruk.

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