Robert George BRADSHAW

BRADSHAW, Robert George

Service Number: 9/995
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Trooper
Last Unit: Unspecified New Zealand Army Units
Born: Glen Lyon, Victoria, Australia, 5 February 1877
Home Town: Warragul, Baw Baw, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Killed In Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 16 July 1915, aged 38 years
Cemetery: No 2 Outpost Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Türkiye
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Memorials: Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll
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World War 1 Service

Date unknown: Involvement Trooper, 9/995, Unspecified New Zealand Army Units

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Biography contributed

Son of James BRADSHAW and Sophia BRADSHAW nee ROSENDALE, of Warragul, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

Enlisted 7 December 1914 Otago Mounted Rifles NZEF

BRADSHAW.- In memory of Corporal Robert George Bradshaw, 3rd Reinforcements, who was killed on  outpost duty at Gallipoli, July 16, 1915, aged 38 years.

Far he sleeps from the home of his youth,
The sod of the Turk his last pillow:
Where the cliffs of Gallipoli, reeking with blood,
Stand high o'er the moon of the billow.

 

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