STEWART, Robert
| Service Number: | 782 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Crosshouse, Ayrshire, Scotland, 28 October 1894 |
| Home Town: | Hamilton, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Prestonpans, Scotland |
| Occupation: | Wheeler - Miner |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, 27 April 1915, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula Plot II, Row L, Grave No. 9 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hamilton War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 782, 4th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 782, 4th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 782, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
An Original Anzac memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 27th April 1915, Private Robert Stewart, 4th Battalion (Reg No-782), wheeler from 79 Gosford Road, Hamilton West, New South Wales, was Killed in Action during the Gallipoli Campaign, age 20. No place or cause of death details given.
Born at Prestonpans, Crosshouse, Ayshire, Scotland on the 28th October 1894 to John Hillhouse (died 8.4.1928, name not inscribed on headstone plaque) and Jane (Jeanie) Paterson Stewart (mother of five or six, died 29.11.1923, age 56) of 79 Gosford Road, Hamilton West, New South Wales, Robert enlisted on the 29th August 1914 at Kensington, N.S.W.
Robert was 17 years of age when he arrived in Australia.
Robert is resting at Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey. Plot 2 Row L Grave 9.
Mr. Stewart’s name has been inscribed on the Hamilton (Gregson Park) War Memorial, Hamilton Municipal District Roll of Honor, Adamstown Citizens' Memorial, Adamstown Municipal District Roll of Honor, Teralba Public School Roll of Honour, Scots Kirk (Hamilton), Pride of Adamstown Lodge, Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows Roll of Honour, unveiled on the 17th March 1916, 36 names inscribed, 3 designated as having Fallen during the Gallipoli Campaign, no photo and whereabouts unknown, and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
Place of Association - Adamstown, New South Wales, Australia.
I have placed poppies at the Stewart memorialised gravesite in remembrance of Robert’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. PRESBYTERIAN-17SW. 63.
Memorial Plaque received January 1922, placed at the Stewart gravesite, date unknown.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
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Lest We Forget.
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