Archive for December 11th, 2007

War Service

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

James Edward Courbarron, my Great Uncle, served in the AIF, 15th Battalion A Company.

Regimental number 122
Unit name 15th Battalion, A Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/32/1

He was 24 at the time of enlistment and returned to Australia on December 14th 1918. He married Agnes and had a son, John Courbarron who died 1996.

His brother, Frederick, enlisted at the age of 15 in the AIF in 1915. He served at the Gallipolli Landing on 25th April 1915. He was discharged due to to effects of gassing. He lived in Brunswick Heads and died in 1983. Freddies wife, Mary Ellen, died in 1963 at Brunswick Heads.

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