CORLETT, Caesar Stephen
| Service Numbers: | 428, 247, 34156 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 December 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | Field Artillery Brigades |
| Born: | Langwarrin, Vic., 4 September 1874 |
| Home Town: | Frankston, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Orchardist |
| Died: | Frankston, Vic., 20 October 1956, aged 82 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Frankston Memorial Park and Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Frankston Avenue of Honour Memorial, Frankston Great War Roll of Honour |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 247, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles | |
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| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 428, 2nd Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Dec 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 34156, Field Artillery Brigades | |
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| 11 May 1917: | Involvement Driver, 34156, Field Artillery Brigades, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 11 May 1917: | Embarked Driver, 34156, Field Artillery Brigades, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of John James and Jane CORLETT
Husband of Violet CORLETT
LANGWARRIN.
Mr C. S. Corlett, better known as Steve, has been accepted for active service abroad and gone into camp. This is the second occasion on which he will have served his country, having been through the Boer campaigns. Mr Corlett, who has a wife and young family depending on him, and has a fine orchard in full bearing stage, which must suffer considerably during the owners absence, is displaying a fine spirit of patriotism and unselfishness by enlisting. Such an example of placing duty in front of all other worldly and selfish ends will surely shame some of the single young men to a sense of their duty, that is if there is any manliness yet responsive in their nature. However, Mr Corlett's action is the forerunner of more married men enlisting from here. The position is not to be trifled with any longer and if the persons best fitted to perforce take on the task of doing something however small it may be, that will help on to that victory to which so many of our lads have paid the supreme sacrifice to attain so shall we continue until the end is reached.