Melville Robert (Bob) CUTHBERTSON DCM

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CUTHBERTSON, Melville Robert

Service Number:	523
Enlisted:	22 February 1915, Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	23rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, 20 December 1893
Home Town:	Parkside, Unley, South Australia
Schooling:	State School, Victoria
Occupation:	Accountant (later Chairman of Beaurepaire's)
Died:	Illness, Somers, Victoria, Australia, 3 December 1958, aged 64 years
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Cremation
Memorials:	South Melbourne Great War Roll of Honor

World War 1 Service

22 Feb 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Melbourne, Victoria
10 May 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 523, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
10 May 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 523, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne
17 Jan 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 523, 23rd Infantry Battalion
11 Jan 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 23rd Infantry Battalion
16 Mar 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1

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Biography

Melville Robert (Bob) Cuthbertson was awarded the DCM at Pozieres.

After the war he went on and became Chairman of Beaurepaire Tyres - which he established with his two Brothers in Law (Sir Frank Beaurepaire and Oscar McKay - nephew of H V McKay, inventor of Sunshine Harvester and founder of Sunshine Harvester Works)

Biography contributed

Melville Robert CUTHBERTSON was born in Maryborough, Queensland on 20th December, 1893

His parents were James Watson CUTHBERTSON & Caroline Elizabeth WHITE

He married Elsie McKAY in Victoria in 1921

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