Robert Burns MCCREDIE

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MCCREDIE, Robert Burns

Service Number:	1074
Enlisted:	14 September 1914, Morphettville, South Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	4th Field Ambulance
Born:	Adelaide, South Australia, 5 January 1891
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Sturt Street Public School, Adelaide, South Australia
Occupation:	Grocer's Assistant
Died:	Died of wounds, Gallipoli, 21 May 1915, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Adelaide Sturt Street Public School Great War Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, The South Australian National War Memorial

World War 1 Service

14 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Morphettville, South Australia
22 Dec 1914:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1074, 4th Field Ambulance, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1914:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1074, 4th Field Ambulance, HMAT Berrima, Melbourne

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Biography

"THE LATE LCE.-CPL. R. B. McCREDIE.

Lce.-Cpl. Robert burns McCredie, who died of wounds sustained at the Dardenelles, was born at Sturt-street, Adelaide, on January 5, 1891. He was educated at the Sturt-Street Public School, and therein had a highly successful career. On leaving school he entered the grocery trade, in pursuance of which four and a half years ago he became employed by the Adelaide Co-operative Society, Limited, Angas street, Adelaide. While on the staff of the society he loyally accepted the call of his country. The deceased was a member of the Retail Grocers' Employees Association, and of the Distributing Trades Union. Possessed of a genial and gentlemanly temperament, he was widely esteemed among his acquaintances. Foremost in many varieties of sports, and a loyal supporter of the West Adelaide Football Club, his loss will be keenly felt by a large circle of sorrowing friends." - from the Adelaide Observer 26 Jun 1915 (nla.gov.au)

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