Robert Edward BEARD

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Service Numbers:	759, R247
Enlisted:	14 September 1914, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	Field Company Engineers
Born:	Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia, 1889
Home Town:	Mailors Flat, Moyne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Linesman
Died:	Natural Causes, Koroit, Victoria, Australia, 14 June 1974
Cemetery:	Tower Hill (Koroit) Civil Cemetery, Victoria
Memorials:	Mailer's (Mailors) Flat Roll of Honor, Warrnambool Soldiers' Memorial

14 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 759, 3rd Field Company Engineers, Adelaide, SA
22 Dec 1914:	Embarked Sapper, 759, 3rd Field Company Engineers, HMAT Berrima, Melbourne
22 Dec 1914:	Involvement Sapper, 759, 3rd Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: ''
31 Oct 1916:	Involvement Sapper, R247, Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Marathon embarkation_ship_number: A74 public_note: ''
31 Oct 1916:	Embarked Sapper, R247, Field Company Engineers, HMAT Marathon, Sydney

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Son of William George BEARD and Sarah Anne Jane BEARD NEE FIRMAN, Mailors Flat, Warrnambool, Victoria

Husband of Florence Mildred BEARD nee JOHNSTON

Remarried after the death of his first wife to Edith Margaret BEARD nee PORTER

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