STONE, Robert Eagles
| Service Number: | 178 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 December 1915, An original of A Company |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 33rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia, 4 March 1891 |
| Home Town: | Tenterfield, Tenterfield Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Printer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Morlancourt, France, 7 May 1918, aged 27 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Tenterfield & Districts Fallen Soldiers Roll of Honor Light Horse, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Dec 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 178, 33rd Infantry Battalion, An original of A Company | |
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| 4 May 1916: | Involvement Corporal, 178, 33rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Marathon embarkation_ship_number: A74 public_note: '' | |
| 4 May 1916: | Embarked Corporal, 178, 33rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Marathon, Sydney | |
| 7 May 1918: | Involvement 178, 33rd Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 178 awm_unit: 33rd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Lance Sergeant awm_died_date: 1918-05-07 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
His older brother 3244 Pte. Joseph Lawrence Stone 4th Battalion AIF had been killed in action at Pozieres 23 July, 1916. Age 28.
Robert Stone was killed on the night of 7 May 1918 at Morlancourt when 34th Battalion with “A” Company, 33rd Battalion attacked enemy line and gained their objective . However, one Company of the 34th Battalion and two Platoons of "A" Company of the 33rd Battalion were cut off, surrounded and wiped out.
One soldier in the Red Cross files says that the ground was recaptured some weeks later and Stone's body was found "in holts with a German officer" both of them fighting to the end. Although his body was buried about a mile south of Morlancourt the grave was subsequently lost.