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Robert Alfred WALLACE

Regimental number3892
Place of birthRockhampton, Queensland
SchoolState School, Queensland
ReligionMethodist
OccupationLabourer
AddressCheapside Street, Maryborough, Queensland
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation23.2
Height5' 8"
Weight111 lbs
Next of kinFather, R A Wallace, Cheapside Street, Maryborough, Queensland
Previous military serviceNil
Enlistment date16 August 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll10 September 1915
Place of enlistmentMaryborough, Queensland
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name15th Battalion, 12th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/32/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A23 Suffolk on 30 November 1915
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll47th Battalion
FateKilled in Action 12 October 1917
Place of death or woundingPasschendaele, Ypres, Belgium
Age at death24.6
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
144
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Robert Alfred Renforth Wallace and Eliza WALLACE.
Other details

War service: Egypt, Western Front

Transferred to 47th Bn, Tel el Kebir, 9 March 1916.

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 2 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 9 June 1916.

Admitted to 4th Australian Field Ambulance, 2 January 1917 (trench feet), and transferred same day to New Zealand Stationary Hospital; to 8th General Hospital, Rouen, 5 January 1917.
SourcesNAA: B2455, WALLACE Robert Alfred

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