HERBERT, Robert Francis
| Service Number: | 147 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 February 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 23rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Wilcannia, New South Wales, Australia, 17 April 1893 |
| Home Town: | Strath Creek, Murrindindi, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 14 December 1945, aged 52 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 13 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 147, 23rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 10 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 147, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 10 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 147, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne | |
| 15 Jan 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 147 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Robert Francis Herbert (Service No:147) enlisted in the AIF on 13 February 1915, and was attached to 23rd Infantry Battalion on 10 May 1915 when he embarked with his Unit from Melbourne on board HMAT A14 Euripides. Private Herbert was attached to 6th ALTMB when he embarked for the RTA on 15 January 1919.
Francis Robert Abel Herbert (aka Robert) was born in Wilcannia NSW in 1893, youngest of five children of John Nicholas Hay (aka Herbert; b1848 in Middlesex, England) and his second wife Mary Jane Thomas (nee Grierson; b1815 in Ayr, Scotland). John immigrated with his parents and siblings in 1858, arriving in Melbourne, Victoria on board the Red Jacket, and Mary immigrated to New Zealand in 1866. John worked in Kyneton Victoria as a Mounted Constable of Police, and in 1872 was appointed Inspector of Slaughter House and cattle intended for slaughter at Bacchus Marsh. Following the death of his first wife Jane and son in 1877, John travelled to New Zealand, where he and Mary married in 1879 in Otago. John worked as a Labourer before moving to NSW in the mid 1880s, and from there to Melbourne, where he worked as a Labourer until his death in 1921. Mary died in 1923.
Robert worked as a Farm Labourer at Strath Creek via Broadford, Echuca, Victoria prior to enlisting in the AIF. He returned following his Discharge in 1919 and, in Yea in 1922, married Myrtle May Elizabeth Collins (b1900 in Yea, Victoria). Robert and Myrtle settled at Strath Creek, and in 1922 Robert was awarded farming land at Flowerdale via Yea (Battle to Farm). In the early 1930s, Robert and Myrtle settled in Broadford, where they raised their family and Robert was a Labourer. By the early 1940s, Robert and Myrtle had moved to Melbourne, where Robert died in 1945 and Myrtle in 1982.
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