KEARNS, Robert
| Service Number: | 2665 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 June 1916, Kiama, N.S.W. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 45th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, 1882 |
| Home Town: | Greenwell Point, Shoalhaven Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Berry Hospital, Berry, New South Wales, Australia, 19 July 1941, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Nowra General Cemetery RC.A.15.2. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Jun 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2665, Kiama, N.S.W. | |
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| 7 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 2665, 45th Infantry Battalion , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 2665, 45th Infantry Battalion , HMAT Ceramic, Sydney | |
| 1 Feb 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2665, 45th Infantry Battalion , RTA per HT Balmoral Castle, disembarked 28 March 1918 Sydney | |
| 1 May 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2665, 45th Infantry Battalion , Medically Unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Karen Standen
NOWRA
The Shoalhaven 'News' says:—
The cameraderie of the Diggers was strikingly exemplified on Saturday of last week at the funeral of Bob Kearns. Bob was part of the flotsam and jetsam that drifted hither and thither after the nerve-racking experiences of the last war.
He was not personally known to many people, though he had existed in Nowra for some time. But news of his death came to the local sub branch and arrangements were at once made to give him a funeral befitting an old Digger. The sub-branch footed the bill, and the mourners consisted almost exclusively of fellow members of the old A.l.F. It matters not to Bob Kearns, but history will record that his last resting-place in the Nowra cemetery will be known to posterity through the efforts and interest of those who knew him only as a Digger. Thus is the spirit of Anzac perpetuated.
From the South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus, 1 August 1941. (nla.gov.au)
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