JENNINGS, Robert Charles
| Service Number: | 1663 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 44th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Victoria Park, Western Australia, 1898 |
| Home Town: | Cannington, Canning, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farm Hand |
| Died: | Cancer, Perth, March 1966 |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 1663, 44th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
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| 6 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 1663, 44th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suevic, Fremantle | |
| 25 Jan 1918: | Honoured Military Medal, Awarded in the Field |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Brian Jennings
Robert Jennings met Violet Gwendoline Amor in 1916 during the Battalion's training on Salisbury Plains, Wiltshire. They corresponded during his service and married in 1919 in London.
He was awarded the Military Medal in the field by rescuing Captain Fowler. His sons found this out, not from their father, but from the Captain's brother who taught them at Bunbury High School. Their Father had told his sons that he won the medal in a raffle.
Robert returned to Perth with his wife in the latter part of 1919 and took up Teacher Training. He taught in remote parts of Western Australia, including Sandstone, Leonora, Cookernup, other south west and metropolitan schools as Head Master.
He returned from the war with the affect of gas and shrapnel wounds to to arm and back. Although he played sport, his health was impacted by the war, and died at the age of 68 in 1966.
He was a keen member of the RSL, and when in Perth marched with his Battalion.
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