Robert MACNIVEN

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Service Number:	606
Enlisted:	26 August 1914, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	4th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Lanark, Scotland, 1890
Home Town:	Helensburgh, Wollongong, New South Wales
Schooling:	Market Street, School, Carluke, Scotland
Occupation:	Miner/Carpenter
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 6 August 1915
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing

26 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 606, 4th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
20 Oct 1914:	Involvement Private, 606, 4th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
20 Oct 1914:	Embarked Private, 606, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney

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Residential address at the time of enlistment was C/- Mrs McDermott of Helensburgh, NSW

Father of ex-nuptial daughter Mary Thomson Jamieson of Chapel Street, Carluke, Scotland. Mother of child was Ann Jamieson

Son of Elizabeth MacNiven of Douglas Street, Carluke, Scotland

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Previously served in the Territorials