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4 unusual facts about Aubrey Abbott


Aubrey Abbott

He returned to World War I in 1917, and took part in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force advance to Damascus.

He joined the New South Wales Police Force and on 1914 enlisted in the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, and then transferred to the Australian Imperial Force, and served in New Guinea, Gallipoli, and Sinai.

He married Hilda Gertrude Hartnett on 24 October 1916 in Westminster Cathedral in London, where he had been sent after falling ill in the trenches.

Charles Abbott

Charles Lydiard Aubrey Abbott (1886–1975), Administrator of the Northern Territory of Australia



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