James Cuthbert COBON

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COBON, James Cuthbert

Service Number:	310
Enlisted:	20 August 1914
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Cooktown, North Queensland, Australia, date not yet discovered
Home Town:	Cooktown, Cook, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Engineer
Died:	War Service related , 30 January 1936, place of death not yet discovered, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland Cremated -MEMORIAL ID 216943018
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World War 1 Service

20 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 310, 2nd Light Horse Regiment
24 Sep 1914:	Involvement Private, 310, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of England embarkation_ship_number: A15 public_note: ''
24 Sep 1914:	Embarked Private, 310, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Star of England, Brisbane
13 Sep 1916:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, Wounded in action, 15 May 1915 (severe gun shot wound; both buttocks).

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Biography contributed by Robert Kearney

He was the third son of the lateMr. J. J. Cobon, and of Mrs. Cobon, of Laurel Avenue, Chelmer, and was born at Cooktown 41 years ago, where his father was a surveyor. The deceased
was an engineer in Messrs. Griffiths' foundry, Toowoomba when war broke out. He enlisted, and left with the first contingent, of the A.I.F. for Egypt.
At the landing at Gallipoli he was severely wounded and was invalided to England. He later returned to Queensland, and was a patient at Rosemount Hospital practically from that time.

He is survived by his mother, two brothers - Messrs. A. T. Cobon (manager of the Queensland National Bank, Redcliffe) and H. H. Cobon (acting superintendent surveyor at Johore, India) - and one sister, Miss M. Cobon (Chelmer). The funeral took place to the crematorium, the Rev. Roy St. George (rector of St. Andrew's, Indooroopilly), officiating.

The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), 7 February, p. 22. , viewed 08 Jul 2022,

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