BORN: 1882
DEACON: 1905
PRIEST: 1907
DIED: 1966
BIOGRAPHY:
21 Dec 1905‐1908 – Curate St. Mary Portsea diocese Winchester
14 Aug 1908‐1912 – Curate St. Andrew Lutwyche diocese Brisbane
22 Jun 1912‐31 Jan 1914 – Vicar St. Philip Tiaro
25 Jan 1914‐04 Sep 1917 – Rector St. Andrew Pittsworth
1916-1919 – Chaplain Australian Imperial forces
1918 – MC Military Cross
1919‐04 Feb 1925 – Rector St. Thomas Toowong
10 Feb 1925‐01 May 1935 – Rector St. James Toowoomba
01 Aug 1935‐1946 – Rector St Mary Kangaroo Point diocese Brisbane
1939‐1946 – Chaplain Australian military forces
01 Jan 1946‐24 Mar 1949 – Canon residentiary Cathedral Church S John Evangelist Brisbane
31 May 1949 – Secretary Cathedral Completion fund Brisbane
01 Jun 1949‐29 Sep 1949 – Honorary canon Cathedral Church St. John Evangelist
01 Jun 1949 – Superannuated Brisbane
1949 – Honorary Mission Chaplain diocese Brisbane
Relevant Documents
| Small account of the time that John Edward Norman OSBORN spent as a Chaplain in WWI. | Typed | AY5 Box5 – Chaplaincy Services | Brisbane Chaplains | |
| Church Chronicle – From the Firing Line – Extracts from letter to the Archbishop from EDWARDS, HELY-WILSON, J.E.NORMAN OSBORN (mentions Tubman), pp. 124-125. | Original copy within bound cover | Chronicle Cabinet | July 1917 | ** Also in Bush Notes – July 1917 – pp. 102-103. |
| Church Chronicle – Inaugural Address – Synod 1918 – Ten chaplains from this diocese on continuous service: TUBMAN, EDWARDS, OSBORN, EVA, COLLINS, WALTON, FLOOD, GARLAND, SCOTT AND BLOOD. OSBORN has won the Military Cross. Special thanks to the Soldiers’ Help Society and the genius of Canon GARLAND, p.128. | Original copy within bound cover | Chronicle Cabinet | July 1918 | ** Also in Bush Notes – July 1918 – p. 96. |
| Church Chronicle – Inaugural Address to Synod 1919, Delighted that Chaplains OSBORN AND EVA are back, p. 140. | Original copy within bound cover | Chronicle Cabinet | July 1919 | |
| Church Chronicle – News from the Parishes – Lutwyche/Albion/Grovely – Chaplain OSBORN will be going to Toowong on July 31st. | Original copy within bound cover | Chronicle Cabinet | August 1919 | |
| Church Chronicle – News from the Parishes – Lutwyche/Albion/Grovely – Osborn family reunited, p.220. | Original copy within bound cover | Chronicle Cabinet | October 1919 | ** Also in Bush Notes – July 1918 – p. 96. |
| Inaugural Address – Synod 1918 – Ten chaplains from this diocese on continuous service: TUBMAN, EDWARDS, OSBORN, EVA, COLLINS, WALTON, FLOOD, GARLAND, SCOTT AND BLOOD. OSBORN has won the Military Cross. Special thanks to the Soldiers’ Help Society and the genius of Canon GARLAND. Chaplain FLOOD from Bush Brotherhood. HELY-WILSON has been invalided home by serious illness, TOMKINS also now home, pp. 247 – 249. | Original copy within bound cover | FS1 | Church of England Year Book of the Diocese of Brisbane – 1918 |