Robin Hubert GHEST

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GHEST, Robin Hubert

Service Number:	1100
Enlisted:	27 October 1914, Liverpool, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	13th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Milson's Point, North Sydney, New South Wales, 17 August 1886
Home Town:	Five Dock, Canada Bay, New South Wales
Schooling:	Sydney Shore Church of England Grammar School
Occupation:	Estate Agent
Died:	Died of Illness (dysentery), Malta, 10 September 1915, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	Pieta Military Cemetery B IX 2, Pieta Military Cemetery, Tal-Pieta, Malta (island), Malta
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Northbridge (Shore) Sydney Church of England Grammar School Memorial Cricket Ground Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

27 Oct 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1100, 13th Infantry Battalion, Liverpool, New South Wales
22 Dec 1914:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1100, 13th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1914:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1100, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
1 May 1915:	Wounded ANZAC / Gallipoli

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Captain Robert and Susie GHEST, of Chiswick, Drummoyne, NSW

"...1100 Pte Robin Hubert Ghest, 13th Battalion... Pte Ghest, an estate agent from Five Dock, NSW prior to enlistment, embarked with C Company from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 22 December 1914. Whilst serving at Gallipoli he contracted dysentery and was evacuated to Malta where, on 10 September 1915, aged 30, he died as a result of his illness... interred in the Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

PRIVATE R. H. GHEST.
Private Robin Hubert Ghest (died of illness) was the eldest son of Captain R. C. Ghest, of Five Dock, and was 29 years of age and unmarried. He was educated at the North Sydney Grammar School, and at the tlme of enlistment was in business on his own account as house and land agent at Bondi. He landed at Gallipoli on April 26, and was wounded soon afterwards. He subsequently returned to the firing line, and had been there for some time when he was seized with illness, and was admitted into hospital at Malta. Here he met a younger brother, Corporal Jack Ghest, who had been wounded, and the latter was with him
at the time of his death.

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