Cobon, Hugh Horace
PLACE OF BIRTH
Cooktown, QLD.
OCCUPATION
Land Surveyor
PLACE OF ENLISTMENT
Port Douglas
DATE OF ENLISTMENT
13/09/1916
NEXT OF KIN
[father] James John Cobon
LINK TO DOUGLAS SHIRE
Enlisted Port Douglas
REGIMENT 1
26th Battalion A.I.F.
RANK
Sergeant
CAMPAIGN 1
Gallipoli
CAMPAIGN 2
Middle East
DATE DISCHARGED
13/09/1916
OTHER-INFO
Awarded the 1914/15 Star, British War Medal,Victory Medal.
STORY OUTLINE
Hugh Cobon, born in Cooktown, enlisted at Port Douglas in March 1915. On the 24/05/1915 he embarked per H.M.A.T A11 'Ascanius' and proceeded to Gallipoli Peninsula on the 04/09/1915. He disembarked on 09/01/1916 at Alexandria but on 26/01/1916 went to Hospital in Tel-el-Kabir with bronchitis, then sciatica. He was returned to Australia for discharge per 'Tonus' on 10/06/1916. Sergeant Cobon later lost all his personal effects which included his medals when he had to leave Singapore and believed they were then in the hands of the Japanese.
SERVICE NO
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