MCCORMAC, Edward Thomas
| Service Number: | 17696 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 November 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 11th Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1882 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Stevedore |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , 10 November 1950, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, NSW |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Nov 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 17696, 18th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 10 May 1917: | Involvement Sapper, 17696, Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Marathon embarkation_ship_number: A74 public_note: '' | |
| 10 May 1917: | Embarked Sapper, 17696, Field Company Engineers, HMAT Marathon, Sydney | |
| 9 Feb 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sapper, 17696, 11th Field Company Engineers, per HT Ascanius | |
| 23 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 17696, 11th Field Company Engineers |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sapper Edward Thomas Brown (Service No:17696) enlisted in the AIF on 20 November 1916 as a Private attached to 18th Infantry Battalion. He was a Sapper attached to 11th Field Company Engineers (FCE) when embarked from Sydney on HMAT A74 Marathon on 10 May 1917. Sapper Brown served in France and embarked from England on 9 February 1919 on board HT Ascanius for the RTA, where he was Discharged on 23 June 1919.
Born in 1882 in Sydney NSW, Edward was the second of six children of Martin Joseph McCormac (b1854 in County Galway, Ireland) and Sarah Ellen Kennedy (b1858 in London, England). Martin - an Artilleryman in Ireland - was a Probationary Police Constable (No:2585) in Sydney in 1875, and a Police Constable when he and Sarah married in 1878. Martin and Sarah settled in Paddington in Sydney NSW where they raised their family and Martin was Police Constable, Grocer (1893) and a Telegraph Operator (1903).
Edward worked as a Labourer in Sydney before becoming a Stevedore. In 1903 in Sydney, Edward married Susan Mary Williams (b1878 in Sydney, NSW) and the couple settled in Sydney where they raised their family and Edward worked as a Stevedore until his death in 1950. Sarah died in 1966.