WARREN, Robert Clyde
| Service Number: | 3959 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 60th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, 1891 |
| Home Town: | North Fitzroy, Victoria |
| Schooling: | South Brunswick State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Ironmoulder |
| Died: | Died of Wounds, France, 24 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais - Hauts-de-France Plot I, Row O, Grave 21a. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3959, 7th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 23 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 3959, 7th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 3959, 7th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne | |
| 24 Jul 1916: | Involvement Private, 3959, 60th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3959 awm_unit: 60th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-07-24 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Robert Clyde Warren was one of nine children of Robert and Ada Warren of Carlton, Victoria. Three of their sons lost their lives serving during WW1 and WW2.
Robert left Australia in late 1915 with the 7th Battalion and transferred to the 60th Battalion in Egypt. He was severely wounded during the Battle of Fromelles. He died in the 8th Stationary Hospital at Wimereux five days later, from gunshot wounds to the leg and a fractured thigh.
His younger brother 271 Pte Stanley Gordon Warren, 7th Battalion AIF, was killed in action in the Battle of Krithia, at Helles, Gallipoli, 8 May 1915, aged 18.
Another brother, 2692 Pte. Ormond Warren 6th Battalion AIF was returned to Australia 13 December 1915, having accidently shot himself through the knee whilst cleaning an officer’s revolver on board the troopship on its way to Egypt.
The fourth brother to enlist during WW1, 7584 Private Herbert Peter Warren 5th Battalion AIF, joined up at 17 years of age in 1917 and suffered gunshot wounds in France on 10 August 1918. He was returned to Australia medically unfit 21 December 1918.
A fifth brother, who was 13 years of age when his brother was killed in action at Gallipoli, VX18324 Sapper Harold John Warren, 2/10th Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers, died at Sandakan, Borneo, as a Japanese prisoner of war, on 22 March 1945, aged 42.
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