CORPSE, William Frederick
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hillgrove, New South Wales, Australia, 1892 |
| Home Town: | Dorrigo, Bellingen, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Hillgrove Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Meningitis, Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia, 7 August 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Liverpool Old Cemetery |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Private, 2nd Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
His parents were Thomas Henry and Ada Derwent Corpse. The father, Thomas Henry Corpse was one of the pioneer settlers of the Dorrigo plateau. Dorrigo is about 60 kilometres inland from Coffs Harbour and is situated on an escarpment at a height of 730 meters. Their three eldest sons enlisted in the Great War.
William enlisted on the 16 July 1915 and had not been allocated a regimental number when he fell ill with cerebro spinal meningitis on the 3 August 1915. His parents were on their way to him when he died in the Field Hospital at the Liverpool Camp some four days later.
His younger brother 226 Cpl. Arthur Herbert Corpse, 36th Battalion AIF, was killed in action in France 5 April 1918, age 23.
Another brother 1021 Private Henry Ernest Corpse 1st Battalion AIF, was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in 1918 and returned home twice wounded and gassed.
A fourth and much younger brother, NX11172 Private Albert Corpse, enlisted for WW2 by reducing his age to be let into the Army. He was captured in Crete and was a Prisoner of War in Austria for 4½ years before returning home.