INGLETON, Robert Robertson
| Service Number: | 6417 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 October 1916, Enlisted at Royal Agricultural Society Showground, Moore Park, Sydney. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 18th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, 8 March 1892 |
| Home Town: | Goulburn, Goulburn Mulwaree, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Locomotive Fireman |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 9 October 1918, aged 26 years |
| Cemetery: |
St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Picton and District Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 30 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6417, 18th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Royal Agricultural Society Showground, Moore Park, Sydney. | |
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| 11 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 6417, 18th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 6417, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suevic, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Robert Robertson INGLETON (Service Number 6417) was born on 8th March 1892 at Goulburn. He took up the role of cleaner in the Locomotive Depot in his home town on 19h February 1909. A year later he had transferred to Picton, then back to Goulburn in 1911, and in 1913 progressed to fireman at Picton. On 30th October 1916 he was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces and he enlisted that same day at the Royal Agricultural Society Showgrounds in Sydney. He was unmarried and gave his father, then living at Menangle Street Picton, as his next of kin.
He was allocated to the 18th Reinforcements to the 18th Australian Infantry Battalion. He embarked on HMAT ‘Suevic’ from Sydney on 11th November 1916, reaching Devonport (Engand) on 30th January 1917. He spent a couple of months at Rollestone with the 5th Training Battalion. He joined the 18th Battalion in France on 20th May. His service at the front was interrupted by several hospitalisations for sickness, including ‘incipient trench feet’.
During the first fortnight in March 1918 Ingleton was on leave in the UK. On his return to France he had five clear months at the front until he was again hospitalised, this time at the 18th USA General Hospital at Camiers with diarrhoea and piles.
In October 1918 he was wounded with shrapnel to his buttock and right thigh. He died from those injuries at the 3rd Stationary Hospital on 9th October 1918.
Robert Ingleton’s brother, Alexander was also a NSW railwayman. He served in the 6th Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company and survived the war.
Robert Ingleton was buried in the St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.