Robert Joseph HOLDSWORTH

HOLDSWORTH, Robert Joseph

    Service Number: 4804
    Enlisted: 14 September 1915, Brisbane, Queensland and assigned to 9th Battalion, 15th Reinforcement intake.
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 29th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 3 June 1895
    Home Town: Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
    Schooling: Queensland State School System, Queensland, Australia
    Occupation: Station Hand
    Died: Natural Causes, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 11 May 1973, aged 77 years
    Cemetery: Gympie Cemetery, Qld
    Burial reference: - CES-4-81.
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    World War 1 Service

    14 Sep 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4804, 9th Infantry Battalion, Brisbane, Queensland and assigned to 9th Battalion, 15th Reinforcement intake.
    28 Mar 1916: Involvement Private, 4804, 9th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Commonwealth embarkation_ship_number: A73 public_note: ''
    28 Mar 1916: Embarked Private, 4804, 9th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Commonwealth, Brisbane
    3 Nov 1917: Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4804, 29th Infantry Battalion, Medically unfit, disability: - amputated right leg below knee, caused by shrapnel wound.

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    Biography contributed by Dianne Black

    Parents: - Joseph Atkinson Holdsworth and Emily Jane Ocock married 4th September 1877 in St John's Church, Brisbane, Queensland.

    Wife: ---Eunice Wood married 1st September 1923, All Saints Church, Wickham Terrace, Brisbane, Queensland.

    Fate:- Returned to Australia via "Karoola", 23rd July 1917 and discharged on 3rd November 1917 on medical grounds, amputation of right leg, just below the knee.

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