PARIS, Robert
| Service Number: | 6067 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 February 1916, Enlisted at Liverpool. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Sydenham, New South Wales, Australia., 7 April 1893 |
| Home Town: | Kogarah, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tramway Permanent Way (track) worker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 5 May 1917, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6067, 4th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool. | |
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| 22 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 6067, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 6067, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Robert PARIS, (Service Number 6067) was born on 7th April 1893 at Sydenham. He first worked for the NSW Government Railways and Tramways in the Tramways Electrical Branch as a temporary cleaner at Newtown Depot from 14th May 1910. He resigned after little more than a month. Five years later he found temporary employment again as a labourer for the Engineer for Tramways in Sydney. He described this work on his Attestation Papers as ‘Laborer (Per-Way Tramway)’. He was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces on 9th February and enlisted at Liverpool the same day. Unmarried, he gave his father Walter Alexander Paris of Carlton as his next of kin.
He was allotted to the 19th Reinforcements to the 4th Battalion. He embarked HMAT ‘Wiltshire’ at Sydney on 22nd August 1916, reaching Plymouth (England) on 12th October. In England he joined the 1st Training Battalion and after only a few weeks of extra training proceeded to France through Folkestone on 12th December 1916. At the 1st Australian Division Base Depot at Etaples he was convicted of being out of bounds on 22-12-16 and for this crime was penalised with 14 days Field Punishment No. 2. After detention from 26th December 1916 until 5th January 1917 he marched out to his unit and joined the 4th Battalion on 10th January.
Robert Paris was killed in action on 5th May and buried in the vicinity of Noreuil. The location of this interment was never recovered after the war and he has no known grave. He is remembered on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.
A pension of £2 per fortnight was awarded to his mother, May Flora Paris, from 28th July 1917
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.