WEBB, Robert Purdy
| Service Number: | 276 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 February 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Newcastle, New South Wales (19.6.1893), 19 June 1893 |
| Home Town: | Winton, Winton, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia, 11 March 1959, aged 65 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 2-128. 50. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 276, 1st Machine Gun Company | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 276, 3rd Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Clan McGillivray embarkation_ship_number: A46 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 276, 3rd Machine Gun Company, HMAT Clan McGillivray, Brisbane | |
| 27 Apr 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 21st Machine Gun Company | |
| 11 May 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 3rd Machine Gun Company | |
| 31 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 276, 3rd Machine Gun Company, 2nd Passchendaele , Gassed | |
| 2 Jun 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 1st Machine Gun Battalion | |
| 11 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 276, 1st Machine Gun Battalion , 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Kearney
Enlisted and served under alias Robert Brennan
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, now resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
63 years ago today, on the 14th March 1959, Private Robert Purdy Webb (enlisted as Robert Brennan), 1st Australian Machine Gun Battalion (Reg No-276), labourer from Winton, Queensland and 112 Cleary Street, Hamilton, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 65. ANGLICAN 2-128. 50.
Born at Newcastle, New South Wales on the 19th June 1893 to Robert and Mary Ann Webb; husband of Ruby Brenda Webb nee Stout (married 1925, Wickham, N.S.W., died 1968, sleeping here), Robert enlisted February 1916 at Townsville, Queensland.
Admitted to hospital 11.8.1917 (ulcers on arms).
Wounded in action - 31.10.1917 (gas shell).
Robert returned home July 1919, being discharged on the 11th September 1919.
I have not located Mr. Webb’s name inscribed or any known War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at Robert’s Commonwealth War Graves Plaque in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states Died after Discharge,11.3.1959.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
Lest We Forget.
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