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319:"The evidence discloses that Captain A.G. Corbett, A.A.M.C., disappeared from the transport "Orontes" on the night of the 25th./26th. June 1920, when that vessel was at sea, 130 miles from Toulon, France, so he can only reasonably be presumed to have thrown himself overboard —this is borne out by the letter he left before disappearing – and is dead.
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has been used but is now having no effect. Can only see myself going mad which is intolerable so better to go overboard. The depression is unbearable. Corbett."
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Recommend that he be recorded as "drowned at sea – suicide".
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Football: Inter-University Match: Won by Melbourne,
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140:Playing statistics correct to the end of 1913.
668:"Roll of Honour: Archibald Gladstone Corbett"
644:" (p.26; p.37). N.B. no mention of "suicide".
219:At the age of 28, he enrolled in medicine at
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704:Personal: Doctor Lost Overboard,
632:. The only thing that matters is
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492:Roll of the Fallen, 1926, p.9.
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819:Deaths by drowning in France
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706:The Herald
652:References
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