COBURN, Timothy Lancelot
| Service Number: | 1214 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | New South Wales Contingent - Sudan |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 20 August 1863 |
| Home Town: | Surry Hills, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Typhoid fever, Colombo, Ceylon, 3 June 1885, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
Borella Kanattha General Cemetery, Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, NSW Field Battery Soudan 1885 |
Sudan (1885) Service
| 3 Mar 1885: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Gunner, 1214, New South Wales Contingent - Sudan, Sudan | |
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| 3 Jun 1885: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Gunner, 1214, New South Wales Contingent - Sudan, Died of Disease. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Edwards
"ANOTHER OF THE CONTINGENT DEAD.
Late on Wednesday afternoon the Colonial Secretary received a telegram from Colombo notifying that Lancelot Coburn, who had been left in hospital there from the troopship Arab, and whose state a previous telegram had reported as most critical, had died. Owing to a numerical roll of the Contingent not havng been sent to Sydney from Aden when the Iberia arrived there, much difficulty exists in identifying the members reprted dead. This causes great annoyance and unnecessary grief and uncertainty to many. There sems little reason to doubt, however, that the deceased Lancelot Coburn is a son of Mr. Martin Coborn, of Surry Hills. He was named Timothy Lancelot Coburn, 22 years of age, was a member of the Contingent, and was attached to tbe Artillery Corps. Gunner Coburn was for some years connected in the Volunteer Artillery Force, and was one of the first who passed into the ranks of the Contingent." - from the Sydney Evening News 04 Jun 1885 (nla.gov.au)
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