LYBURN, James McLaren
| Service Number: | N348360 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 January 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 26th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Tibbermore, Perthshire, Scotland, 1 December 1913 |
| Home Town: | Blayney, Blayney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 25 August 1978, aged 64 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 29 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N348360, 26th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
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| 25 Sep 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, N348360, 26th (NSW) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Private, N348360, Volunteer Defence Corps (SA) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Mac was the fourth of six children of James Lyburn (born 1881 in Lanarkshire, Scotland) and Margaret (Madge) Lightbody Thompson Carruth (born 1881 in Lanarkshire, Scotland). James (a Farmer) and Madge (a Farmer's Daughter) married in 1908, and raised their family in Perthshire. James died in 1924, and Mac immigrated to NSW in 1929, with brothers Archie and Allan and sister Ann following later. Madge visited Mac in 1934 and moved on to settle in New Zealand with youngest son Allan.
Mac was living at Blayney (near Bathurst, NSW) and working as a Labourer when he married Beatrice (Rosie) Adela Rose Dowsett (born 1918 at Blayney in NSW). Mac enlisted in the ACMF in January 1942 and was a Private (Service No:N348360) attached to 26 Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps when he was Discharged in September 1945. Brother Allan Morrison Leyburn (Driver, Service No:185916) served with NZASC in WWII.
By 1949 Mac was a Farmer and he and Rosie settled in the Blayney/Bathurst Region. Mac died in 1978, Rosie remarried in 1983 and died in QLD in 2012.