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CORNISH, Henry James
| Service Number: | 2918 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 October 1917, Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Railway Unit (AIF) |
| Born: | Coleraine, Victoria, Australia, 16 October 1893 |
| Home Town: | Torrensville, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School |
| Occupation: | Fireman |
| Died: | Trinity Gardens, South Australia, Australia, 12 June 1959, aged 65 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
West Terrace Cemetery (AIF Section) Section: KO, Road: 17A, Site No: 50 |
| Memorials: | Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Oct 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2918, Reinforcements WW1, Adelaide, SA | |
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| 8 May 1918: | Involvement Private, 2918, Railway Unit (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Osterley embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 8 May 1918: | Embarked Private, 2918, Railway Unit (AIF), RMS Osterley, Sydney | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Sergeant, 2918 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
2918 Henry James CORNISH was born at Coleraine, Victoria, on 16 October 1893. He was enrolled at Mount Gambier High School on 20 January 1908 by his father Robert Alfred Cornish, a blacksmith, of Power Street, Mount Gambier. He left the school on 30 March 1909.
He enlisted in Adelaide on 19 October 1917 (24, railway fireman, widower with 1 child, Roman Catholic) naming his mother, Sarah Hannah Dunstan of Hackney, South Australia, as his next of kin. He embarked from Sydney on the ‘Osterley’ on 8 May 1918 as one of the Railway Unit Reinforcements, disembarking at Liverpool in England on 10 July 1918, was sent overseas to France on 21 September 1918 and taken on strength of the 5th Australian Base General Railway Company several days later. On 1 May 1919 he was marched out to England for return to Australia. He left England on the ‘Konigin Luise’ on 21 June 1919, disembarked at Adelaide on 11 August and was discharged on 26 August.
Published in Ours: the origins and early years of Mount Gambier High School and Old Scholars who served in the Great European War by Graeme Roulstone
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