CORBETT, Francis Gerard
| Service Number: | V240506 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 January 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Recruit Reception Depot |
| Born: | Linton, Victoria, Australia, 16 January 1906 |
| Home Town: | Skipton, Pyrenees, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Station Hand |
| Died: | Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 2 April 1970, aged 64 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Ballarat New Cemetery and Crematorium, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 16 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, V240506, Recruit Reception Depot | |
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| 23 Feb 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, V240506, Recruit Reception Depot |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Francis Gerard Corbett (Service No:V240506) enlisted in the ACMF in June 1942. He was attached to 3 Recruit Reception Depot when he was Discharged in February 1944.
Born in 1906 at Golden Plains nr Ballarat Victoria, Francis was the eldest (and only surviving) child of James Martin Corbett (b1875 in Carngham, Victoria) and Maria Bridget Curley (b1875 in Skipton, Victoria). James (a Wool Classer) and Maria married in 1904 in Ballarat, Victoria. By 1909 the family had settled in Menminia in the Grampians, Victoria where James was a Wool Classer. Maria died in 1920 and James in 1954.
Francis worked as a Labourer and Station Hand in Skipton and later settled in Ballarat where he was a Labourer. Francis (aka as Gerard/Gerald) died in 1970.