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KEITH, Robert Archibald

Service Number:	96
Enlisted:	28 April 1915, 56th infantry, 3 years
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	24th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Caulfield, Victoria, Australia, July 1894
Home Town:	St Kilda, Port Phillip, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Civil servant
Memorials:	Hawthorn Postmaster General's Department Victoria 1

World War 1 Service

28 Apr 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 96, 24th Infantry Battalion, 56th infantry, 3 years
10 May 1915:	Embarked Private, 96, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne
10 May 1915:	Involvement Private, 96, 24th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
27 Aug 1915:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 24th Infantry Battalion
30 Nov 1916:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches, 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 176 (30 November 1916)
19 Apr 1917:	Honoured Military Medal, ANZAC / Gallipoli, For courage and devotion to duty at Lone Pine during the evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 62
30 Sep 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 96, 24th Infantry Battalion, 3rd MD

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