Other Information:Robert is known to have been serving in the R.A.M.C. on 8th January 1905, being transferred to Army reserve on 9th January 1911. He then emigrated to Australia. On 11th August 1914 he was mobilised and reported for duty. He embarked from Sydney, as an Australian Imperial Reservist, on the “Miltiades” on the 17th October, and entered the war in France on 31st December 1914. Robert wrote a letter to his fiancee in May 1917 - his address being recorded as 14 Stationary Hospital. He returned to Australia after the war. His Next of Kin was recorded as: Miss M Fowler of 198 Goulburn Street, Sydney NSW. [Information sources: MIC; Andrew Pittaway, and Robert's family]
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