COLEMAN, Mark
| Service Number: | 840 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 February 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 37th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Freeburgh, Bright, Indi, Victoria, Australia, 1879 |
| Home Town: | Freeburgh, Alpine, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Bright, Indi, Victoria, Australia, 21 September 1944, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 21 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 840, 37th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 3 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 840, 37th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: '' | |
| 3 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 840, 37th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Persic, Melbourne | |
| 7 Jun 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 840, 37th Infantry Battalion, GSW - head and back (severe) | |
| 7 Aug 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 840, 37th Infantry Battalion, per NZHT82 | |
| 30 Nov 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 840, 37th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Mark was the eight of fourteen children of Thomas Coleman (born 1838 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Margaret Duff (born 1846 in Aysrshire, Scotland). Thomas, a Blacksmith, died in 1899.
Mark worked as a Miner around the Alpine Shire region, and was living in Freeburgh and working as a Miner when he enlisted in the AIF in 1916. Mark served with 37 Infantry Battalion as a Private (Service No: 840) and was WIA in France in 1917. Suffering severe GSW to his head and back, Mark was invalided out and returned to Australia in August 1917. He was Discharged in November 1917. Younger brother Walter - a Blacksmith - served with 15th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery as a Private (Service No: 5057).
Following his Discharge, Mark returned to Freeburgh in Victoria and worked as a Miner until 1930 when he took employment as a Vermin Inspector, and then as a Land Inspector. mark died in Bright in Indi, Victoria in 1944