Robert URQUHART

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Service Number:	4498
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company)
Born:	Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, 1879
Home Town:	Laverton, Laverton, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Boulder, Western Australia, 21 September 1919, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia Anglican area
Memorials:

1 Jun 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 4498, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: ''
1 Jun 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 4498, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: ''
1 Jun 1916:	Embarked Sapper, 4498, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Fremantle
1 Jun 1916:	Embarked Sapper, 4498, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), HMAT Warilda, Fremantle

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Son of Robert Urquhart and Margaret Urquhar of Wagga Wagga, NSW.

Next of kin given as Adeline Urquhart of Rutherglen, Victoria later changed to his sister Isabella Matzen of. Cowper Street, Goulburn, NSW

18 March 1916 - enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA, with the 5th Tunnelling Company with the rank of Sapper.

30 September 1916 - transferred to the 3rd Tunnelling Company.

15 February 1918 - commenced return to Australia aboard HT Llanstephen Castle disembarking on 8 April 1918

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

24 July 1918 - discharged at the 5th Military District