38th Battalion
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Albert ‘Bertie’ Joseph Coffey (SN 4780) born in Melbourne, was a 29 year old labourer when he enlisted in Melbourne on April 19th 1917. He embarked from Melbourne on June 21st aboard the Suevic and from December he served with the 38th Infantry Battalion in France. In August 1918 he suffered a wound to his arm which hospitalised him for a month. When the war ended, he returned to Australia aboard the Lancashire, disembarked on March 31st 1919 and was discharged medically unfit on July 30th.
Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as Bertie J Coffey.
