SCHUBERT, Phillip Stanley
| Service Number: | 1242 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 February 1916, Enlisted at West Maitland. |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 34th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Singleton, New South Wales, Australia, 31 December 1892 |
| Home Town: | Gosford, Gosford Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Permanent Way (track worker) |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 13 October 1917, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
Tyne Cot Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium Plot XXVII, Row D, Grave No. 9 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Singleton Camberwell Honour Roll, Warkworth Public School Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1242, 34th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at West Maitland. | |
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| 2 May 1916: | Involvement Sergeant, 1242, 34th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 2 May 1916: | Embarked Sergeant, 1242, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Phillip Stanley SCHUBERT (Service Number 1242) was born on 31st December 1892 at Singleton. He worked for the NSW Railways as a labourer in the Permanent Way Branch in the Northern Division from 24th November 1913. In May 1914 he was specifically appointed to Burren Junction and in August 1915 he was allocated to work between Farley and Blandford.
On enlistment he gave his ‘trade or calling’ as ‘Railway Employee’. As he was not married he nominated his father, Joseph Schubert of Gosford, as his next of kin. He also claimed 1½ years’ service in Militia units. He was allotted to the 34th Battalion. Schubert embarked HMAT ‘Honorata’ at Sydney on 2nd March 1916. He reached Plymouth (England) on ‘Aragon’ on 23rd June. In July he was admitted to Fargo Hospital with a hernia and it was November before he was fit enough to re-join the 34th Battalion. In December 1916 he contracted Influenza and then spent the next months with the 9th Training Battalion at Tidworth and Portsmouth.
It was August 1917 before he proceeded overseas to France and re-joined the 34th Battalion on 2nd September. By tthis time he had attained the rank of Sergeant. He was killed in action on 13th October 1917 in Belgium. He has a grave in the Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele, Belgium.
A pension of £2 per fortnight was awarded to Schubert’s mother, Elizabeth Emily, from 2nd January 1918.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.