Robert Beattie ALLEN

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ALLEN, Robert Beattie

Service Number:	3003
Enlisted:	9 July 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	13th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Balmain, New South Wales, Australia, 1889
Home Town:	Manly, Manly Vale, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Mouquet Farm, France, 14 August 1916
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated in Manly West Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Manly War Memorial NSW, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

9 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3003, 13th Infantry Battalion
6 Sep 1915:	Involvement Private, 3003, 13th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: ''
6 Sep 1915:	Embarked Private, 3003, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Robert Beattie Allen enlisted a week before his brother 3002 Private Stephen Charles Allen but were together with consecutive regimental numbers when it left for overseas during September 1915. The brothers were killed by the same shell, at Tom's Cut, near Mouquet Farm, on 14 August 1916. Neither has a grave and are remembered on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial.

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