Robert Gladstone FENWICK

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FENWICK, Robert Gladstone

Service Number:	882
Enlisted:	22 July 1915, Liverpool, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	30th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Bulli, New South Wales, Australia, May 1894
Home Town:	Helensburgh, Wollongong, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 20 July 1916
Cemetery:	Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery Plot I, Row C, Grave 11. Inscription: DEARLY LOVED SON AND BROTHER FOREVER IN THE HEARTS OF YOUR FAMILY
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bulli Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

22 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 882, 30th Infantry Battalion, Liverpool, New South Wales
9 Nov 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 882, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney
9 Nov 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 882, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: ''
16 Jun 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 882, 30th Infantry Battalion, Embarked Alexandria for B.E.F per H.M.T. "Hororata"
23 Jun 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 882, 30th Infantry Battalion, Disembarked Marseilles, France
19 Jul 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 882, 30th Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix)
20 Jul 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 882, 30th Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix), Killed In Action

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From AWM

882 Private (Pte) Robert Gladstone Fenwick, 26th Battalion, from Bulli, NSW. A 21 year old miner prior to enlistment, he embarked with the 18th Reinforcements from Sydney aboard HMAT Demosthenes on 23 December 1915. Later transferring to the 30th Battalion, Pte Fenwick was reported missing in action at Fromelles, France, on 21 July 1916. Following receipt of his identification disc from Germany in March 1917, AIF Headquarters officially reported Pte Fenwick killed in action on 20 July 1916. After the war his grave could not be located and he was commemorated on the VC Corner Australian Cemetery Memorial, Fromelles, France. In 2008 a burial ground was located at Pheasant Wood, France containing the bodies of 250 British and Australian soldiers including Pte Fenwick. All of the remains were reburied in the newly created Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery. At the time of the official dedication of the new cemetery on 19 July 2010, ninety-six of the Australians, including Pte Fenwick, had been identified through a combination of anthropological, archaeological, historical and DNA information. Work is continuing on identifying the other remains relocated from the burial ground and buried in the new cemetery as unknown soldiers.

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