Richard Edmond Courtney

Richard Edmond Courtney CB VD
Born	(1870-09-08)8 September 1870
Died	21 October 1919(1919-10-21) (aged 49)
Place of birth	Castlemaine, Victoria
Place of death	Melbourne, Australia
Allegiance	Australia
Service/branch	Australian Imperial Force
Rank	Lieutenant Colonel
Unit	14th Battalion
Battles/wars	World War I
Awards	Companion of the Order of the Bath Volunteer Decoration

Lieutenant Colonel Richard Edmond Courtney CB VD (8 September 1870 – 21 October 1919) was an Australian Soldier in World War I. Courtney's and Steel's Post Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery is named after a position in the Anzac sector named after him during the Battle of Gallipoli.

He was born in Castlemaine, Victoria and educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. He enrolled into Melbourne Law School in 1889 and qualified as a solicitor.

He was the Lieutenant-Colonel in command of the 14th Battalion of the Australian Imperial Force at Gallipoli. He was mentioned in dispatches twice in November 1915, and gazetted with the CB in the same month. Invalided to England he was placed in command of the Weymouth Base Depot. He returned to Australia, arriving in March 1916 and his appointment with the AIF was terminated on 22 May 1916 shortly before he appointed acting commandant for Western Australia 10 June, a post he held until to 15 February 1919. Following the Armistice he became Chief Clerk of the Victorian Branch Repatriation Department. He died of a brain haemorrhage in 1919, in Melbourne.

References

• "Courtney, Richard Edmond". Melbourne Law School. http://history.law.unimelb.edu.au/index.cfm?objectId=FBFCB458-1422-207C-BAE808338CF0AB97. Retrieved 2008-08-07. 
• "Honours and awards (gazetted) - Richard Edmond Courtney". Australian War Memorial. http://www.awm.gov.au/honours/honours/person.asp?p=Cb0004. Retrieved 2008-08-07. 
• "Lieutenant Colonel Richard Edmund Courtney, CB, VD". Australian War Memorial. http://www.awm.gov.au/units/people_1074866.asp. Retrieved 2008-08-07.