ADAMS, Robert John
| Service Number: | 3410 |
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| 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, Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Apr 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3410, 10th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 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 |
Trooper Robert John Adams
Robert was born in Toowoomba and lived at Ellis Creek, a mill townsite in Western Australia. His enlistment papers state that he served in the 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent for 15 months in the Anglo-Boer War before enlistment.
A widower, he embarked on the troopship, Port Lincoln on 30 June 1917 at Fremantle bound for Egypt. He was originally assigned to the 3rd, then the 10th Light Horse Brigade.
Three and a half years before enlisting, Robert had cracked his right leg and this old wound burst with overlapping tibia, causing swelling and pain. He could not walk. Robert also suffered severely with malaria and was returned sick to Fremantle on the troopship, 'Euripedes'.
Although his service records state that he died of pneumonia, his death certificate states that he had pyemia, post operative shock and multiple arthritis (not to be confused with the Spanish 'flu servicemen from the troopship, Boonah).
Robert died on 24 April 1919 aged 40, and was buried at Woodman Point Quarantine Station, Church of England section. He was reinterred on 24 June 1958 at Perth War Cemetery: Plot U11.
3410 Trooper / R.J. Adams / 10th Light Horse / 24th April 1919
AWM Roll of Honour, Panel 7.
Submitted 31 May 2025 by gail dodd
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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