Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918
Cobbin E A Shoeing Smith 1031 Edward Arthur 2 FAB 22 Blacksmith Single R C
Address: Ascot Vale, Union Rd, 169
Next of kin: Cobbin, Mr, father, 169 Union Rd, Ascot Vale
Enlisted: 17 Aug 1914
Embarkation: A9 Shropshire 20 Oct 1914
One Thousand Days with the AIF
Mentioned in correspondence:
Burdeu-C-A-Cpl--1000 Letters from the Front [1 April 1915]
Cobbin also wrote a tribute to Burdeu after his death.
Gunner Frederick Sydney Loch also embarked on the Shropshire with the 2nd Field Artillery Battalion, and wrote an account of it published as Straits Impregnable by Sydney de Lough during the war, though initially disguising it as a novel. An annotated version of Loch's book has been published by Susanna de Vries, and now called To Hell and Back.
War Service Commemorated
Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour With the Colours
Regimental Register
Patriotic Concert 1914
“Send off to the Essendon Boys”
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