Robert Colin GRAHAM

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GRAHAM, Robert Colin

Service Number:	2680
Enlisted:	14 June 1915, Place of enlistment - Liverpool, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	56th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Beechwood, New South Wales, Australia, June 1894
Home Town:	Beechwood, Port Macquarie-Hastings, New South Wales
Schooling:	Stott & Hoares College
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Killed in Action, Bois Grenier, France, 7 August 1916
Cemetery:	Croix-du-Bac British Cemetery, Steenwerck Plot I, Row A, Grave No. 8, Croix-du-Bac British Cemetery, Croix du Bac, Armentieres, Lille, Nord Pas de Calais, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Port Macquarie Cenotaph

World War 1 Service

14 Jun 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2680, Place of enlistment - Liverpool, New South Wales
2 Nov 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2680, 20th Infantry Battalion, Embarked on HMAT 'A14' Euripides from Sydney on 2nd November 1915.
16 Feb 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 56th Infantry Battalion, Transferred from 20 Battalion to the 56 Battalion at Tel el Kebir
7 Aug 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2680, 56th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2680 awm_unit: 56th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-08-07

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Duncan and Jane Graham of Beechwood, New South Wales

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

Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Frank Mahieu

Passing through 'Le Nord' again, visiting again several cemeteries, I paid tribute today to Private Robert Collin (Colin) GRAHAM, K.I.A. 7 August 1916, aged 22, serving with 56th Bn. Australian Infantry, son of Duncan and Jane Graham, of Beechwood, New South Wales.

I did this modest act of remembrance united with his relative, my contact Nikolas Martin (Cundletown, New South Wales, Australia).
Private Robert Graham, while being in billets in the church of Fleurbaix, was hit by a H.E. shell that hit the church. A splinter of wood hit his heart and this poor soldier so bled to death outsuide the church on the street. The Germans had been observing soldiers coming and going to the convent and church and so shelled it.
LEST WE FORGET.

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