CORKHILL, Robert Paul
| Service Number: | 9 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 October 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 44th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Melbourne, Vic., 1878 |
| Home Town: | North Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Blacksmith |
| Died: | Hollywood Repatriation Hospital, Nedlands, WA, 3 July 1951, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Roman Catholic EC 0187 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 44th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 6 Jun 1916: | Embarked Sergeant, 9, 44th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suevic, Fremantle | |
| 6 Jun 1916: | Involvement Sergeant, 9, 44th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Oct 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Warrant Officer Class 2, 44th Infantry Battalion | |
| 13 Jan 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 44th Infantry Battalion | |
| 23 Jun 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 44th Infantry Battalion |
Boer War Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
LIEUTENANT R. CORKHILL, D.C.M.
The many friends of Mrs. R. P. Corkhill, of Queen Victoria-street, Fremantle, will be pleased to learn that she has received news that her husband, Sergeant Robert Corkhill. D.C.M., who left here with the 44th Battalion, has received his commission. Lieutenant Corkhill was decorated with the Distinguished Conduct Medal in the field during the South African campaign for his gallant action in carrying a wounded comrade (Corporal Messer) out of the range of the Boer rifles whilst under a withering fire. in an action a few miles out from Diamond Hill on June 11 1900. On his return to Australia he was one of those chosen to represent Western Australia at the late King's coronation in 1901, and later he was selected to go east on the occasion of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York to Melbourne.
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