STEVENSON, Robert Campbell
| Service Number: | 484 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 12th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Glen Innes, 23 December 1887 |
| Home Town: | North Sydney, North Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Struck by car Military Rd Mosman, North Sydney, 11 June 1961, aged 73 years |
| Cemetery: |
Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 13 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 484, 12th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
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| 13 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 484, 12th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Suevic, Sydney | |
| 19 Jul 1916: | Promoted Australian Army (Post WW2), Lance Corporal, 12th Light Horse Regiment |
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Born in Glen Innes son of Stipendary Magistrate George Stevenson Bob enlisted in the light horse in Feb 1915 at Liverpool, Sydney. Served at Gallipolli then in the desert war in Palestine including the now historic last cavalry charge at Beersheba. Returning at wars end Bob took up a soldiers settlement block at Lacmalac near Tumut (running a dairy) and married his girlfriend from the war years Myra Jones in 1924. Bob was active in the Tumut RSL and memories of this time can be found in local papers including a record of the war in the Wagga Daily Advertiser. Bob retired from farming in the late 1950s and lived in "Clumba Court" Prince St Mosman Sydney and was struck and killed by a car running the red light while crossing Military Rd near home in 1961. His memorial lies within Nthn Suburbs Memorial Gardens along with his wife's Myra and children Helen and David.
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