Robert SLEIGHTHOLME

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SLEIGHTHOLME, Robert

Service Numbers:	1441, 1441A
Enlisted:	10 May 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	35th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Kirby-Misperton, Pickering, Yorkshire, England, 1888
Home Town:	Kelvin, Gunnedah, New South Wales
Schooling:	Kirby-Misperton Church School, Pickering, Yorkshire, England
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Killed in Action, Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium, 12 October 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL-Belgium. Panel 7 - 17 - 23 - 25 - 27 - 29 - 31. , Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gunnedah Cenotaph, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)

World War 1 Service

10 May 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1441, Light Trench Mortar Batteries
25 Oct 1916:	Involvement Private, 1441, Light Trench Mortar Batteries, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
25 Oct 1916:	Embarked Private, 1441, Light Trench Mortar Batteries, HMAT Ascanius, Sydney
12 Oct 1917:	Involvement Private, 1441A, 35th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1441A awm_unit: 35th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-12

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Births Mar 1888 SLEIGHTHOLME Robert Pickering 9d 433.

Mother-Mrs I Sleightholme, 'Wold', Newtown, Hunmanly, Yorkshire, England
[actually this should read Hunmanby, a large village and civil parish in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England. It was historically part of the East Riding of Yorkshire until 1974.

He is remembered in Beverley Minster, Yorksire along with a number of Australian soldier casualties from the Great War, such as A. Senior, P. Searle, M.Scott and J. Shaw.

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