Robert Leonard ELSTOB

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ELSTOB, Robert Leonard

Service Number:	280
Enlisted:	22 September 1914, Mount Morgan, Queensland
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	15th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Inglewood, Queensland, 8 January 1893
Home Town:	Leyburn, Southern Downs, Queensland
Schooling:	Kooroongarra State School
Occupation:	Bridge carpenter
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 9 May 1915, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Millmerran War Memorial, Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

22 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 280, Mount Morgan, Queensland
22 Dec 1914:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 280, 15th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1914:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 280, 15th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne
25 Apr 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 280, 15th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli
9 May 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 280, 15th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 280 awm_unit: 15th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1915-05-09

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Biography contributed by Paul Trevor

"AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.

Our Mount Morgan correspondent, writing on Monday, says : — "In recent lists of soldiers killed, in action there appeared the names of two Mount Morgan men — Robert Leonard Elstob, a single man, twenty-two years of age, a bridge carpenter, whose relatives reside near Clifton, and R. R. Murden. who left with the Fifteenth Battalion, who was formerly employed as a moulder at the Mount Morgan Gold-mining Company's works." - SOURCE (nla.gov.au)

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