Friday, April 17, 2015

Rudolph Robert Corbett

Central School Honour roll
Rudolph Robert Corbett  43rd Howitzer Battery, Canadian Field Artillery   307610  Rudolph signed his attestation papers on the 6th of December 1915 at Guelph, Ontario.  He was a student, born on the 12th of February 1896 at Mimico, York, Ontario.
His parents:  Thomas Corbett ( 1856 — 1923  ) and,
      Annie Maria Young ( 1856 — 1940 )-(Funeral director file)

      At New Westminster in 1920, we find Rudolph who normally was working as a rancher in Princeton, B.C., with enough time to get married to Minda Alvilde Hanson.  And later in 1940 he was living in Toronto.

Brothers:   Arthur Ernest Corbett ( 1880 — 1960) ;  Frederick William Corbett,( 1889 — 1962 )  also Thomas Edward Corbett ( 1885 — 1934 )

Sisters:  Marie Emmeline Corbett "Freeman"( 1883 — 1955 ); Helen Corbett "McLeod" ; Florence Amy Corbett "Swackhamer" ( 1894 — 1958 )

SERVICE RECORD:   states that he was demobilized on the 7th of April 1919 at Toronto, Ontario.

NOTE:  No idea when he or his wife passed away. His brother Frederick William Corbett, also served in WWI

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