OLIVER, Robert Jonah
| Service Number: | 105 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 October 1914, Enlisted at Wonthaggi, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 14th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Smeaton, Victoria, Australia, 1896 |
| Home Town: | Clunes, Hepburn, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Rutherglen State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Butcher |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, 27 April 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Quinn's Post Cemetery, ANZAC Special Memorial, Grave 18 Rev. A. Gillison officiated Headstone inscription reads: My son would that I could have died for thee, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Clunes War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 105, 14th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Wonthaggi, Victoria | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 105, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 105, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 105, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 27 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 105, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Quinn's Post |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Steve Larkins
Son of Thomas Oliver and Alice Eliza Oliver nee Wise of Angus Street, Clunes, Victoria
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Also served in the Wonthaggi Citizen Forces
Biography contributed by Robert Wight
Robert Jonah Oliver, aged just 18, enlisted in the AIF at Wonthaggi on 1 October 1914. He embarked overseas on 22 December 1914 and arrived in Egypt about five weeks later.
After several months training, the 14th Battalion departed Egypt on 12 April 1915 and landed at Gallipoli late on 25 April 1915.
The next day they moved up into the defensive positions later known as Quinn’s Post and Courtney’s Post, and it was while defending Quinn’s Post that Pte Robert Jonah Oliver was killed in action on 27 April 1915.
He was buried later the same day at the Quinn’s Post Cemetery, Gallipoli.
Source: Extract from "Clunes War Memorial WW1" by Robert Wight, June 2022.
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