Robert LOGAN

LOGAN, Robert

Service Number: 3561
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 7th Field Ambulance
Born: Not yet discovered
Home Town: Nambour, Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Died of wounds, Pozieres, Department de la Somme, Picardie, France, 4 August 1916, age not yet discovered
Cemetery: Albert Communal Extension Cemetery
Albert Communal Cemetery Extension, Albert, Picardie, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Mapleton Memorial Stone, Nambour Heroes Walk
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World War 1 Service

24 May 1915: Involvement Private, 3561, 7th Field Ambulance, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
24 May 1915: Embarked Private, 3561, 7th Field Ambulance, HMAT Ascanius, Brisbane

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Biography

"Private Robert Logan, 7th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps, who lies in Plot I, Row M, Grave 44 probably worked forward of Bécourt Chateau near Albert. He was wounded on 4 August 1916 at a time when the bearer parties of the 7th Field Ambulance were working in the so–called ‘collecting zone’ at Pozières where the wounded were carried by stretcher–bearers from the ‘regimental aid posts’ close to the front line, back about a kilometre to ‘collecting stations’. From there the field ambulances moved them at a faster pace to the dressing stations. In this area the stretcher–bearers and ambulance drivers were always in danger from German shells. There is little official evidence about the context of Private Logan’s death but he was severely wounded in the head, probably by a shell fragment, on 4 August and died the same day in the care of the 2nd Australian Field Ambulance at Vadencourt Château, about 14 kilometres west of Albert."

 

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