261 Private Albert Borrowman had been a labourer residing at Frankston, Victoria when he enlisted for Active Service.
Allocated to the 2nd Field Ambulance, 1st AIF, Albert embarked with his Unit for training in Egypt.
Whilst in camp at Mena during Janurary 1915, Albert contracted what would be soon afterwards verified as pulmonary tuberculosis and was returned to Australia as an invalid.
As soon as Albert arrived back from Egypt he was admitted into the 5th Australian General Hospital (Melbourne), and from here he was transferred over to the Greenvale Sanitorium.
Whilst a resident patient at Greenvale, Albert died of the effects of TB shortly after he was admitted on the 30th July 1915, aged 21.
Due to Albert’s death being determined to have been caused by War Service, his grave was to be deemed an ‘official’ War Grave by IWGC/CWGC, and was availed a headstone which would be errected at his grave side within Coburg General Cemetery, Victoria, In recent decades this headstone was removed so as Albert’s ‘official commemoration’ could be shifted to the Walls of the Springvale Gardens on Remembrance (2nd Extention), Victoria, Since this took place an application was made to OAWG for an ‘unofficial’ headstone reflecting Albert’s service and death due to his service with the 1st AIF, and such is how Albert’s grave looks today.
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