Robert John ADAMS

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ADAMS, Robert John

Service Number:	3410
Enlisted:	16 April 1917
Last Rank:	Trooper
Last Unit:	10th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, date not yet discovered
Home Town:	Manjimup, Manjimup, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Teamster
Died:	Pneumonia, Australia, 24 April 1919, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Perth War Cemetery and Annex, Western Australia NC1. 11., Quarantine Station, Woodman Point, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

16 Apr 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3410, 10th Light Horse Regiment
30 Jun 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3410, 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: ''
30 Jun 1917:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3410, 10th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Port Lincoln, Fremantle
24 Apr 1919:	Involvement AIF WW1, Trooper, 3410, 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3410 awm_unit: 10 Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1919-04-24

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

PERTH WAR CEMETERY AND ANNEX

The sixteen headstones are the only Great War casualties to be found in this cemetery, all but four bearing dates of death between 12th & 26th December 1918; the other four died in the early months of 1919. These fifteen men and one woman were all originally buried in the cemetery at the Woodman Point Quarantine Station near Fremantle in Western Australia, and this is their story. It begins in 1914 with the internment of a German owned ship, the Melbourne (above), in Sydney harbour on the outbreak of war. Carrying over 1000 soldiers and crew, she was a few days from the East African coast when news reached the ship that the signing of the Armistice had taken place and that the war was over.

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