23rd Battalion
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Richard Charles Cornish (SN 915) born at Steiglitz, was a 20 year old pastry cook when he enlisted in Melbourne on February 22nd 1915. Assigned to the 23rd Infantry Battalion he embarked aboard the Euripides on May 10 and sailed to Egypt. In July he was admitted to hospital suffering from venereal disease before being returned to Australia aboard the Port Lincoln. He disembarked at Melbourne on September 2nd and was discharged ‘medically unfit, venereal’ on October 14th.
