DONNELLY, Robert Charles
| Service Number: | 1803 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Unspecified British Units |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1890 |
| Home Town: | Mount Lawley, Vincent, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Killed In Action, France, 21 October 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Mount Lawley - Inglewood War Memorial , Thiepval Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 1803 | |
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| 3 Oct 1914: | Involvement Sergeant, 1803, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
| 3 Oct 1914: | Embarked Sergeant, 1803, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Medic, Fremantle | |
| 4 Apr 1915: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 1803, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade , Appointed commission in the 1/18th East Lancs Battery with Royal Field Artillery | |
| 21 Oct 1916: | Involvement Lieutenant, Unspecified British Units, 97th Battery 147th Brigade Royal Field Artillery |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of R J DONNOLLEY, 16 1st Avenue, Mount Lawley, WA
Worked for 9 years at the Engineers' Branch of W A Railways.
He left W.A. with the Australian Expeditionty, Force on the 2nd November,1914. In Egypt, April 1915, he was transferred and appointed Lieutenant in 1st 18th Battery in 1st 3rd East Lancs Brigade Royal Field Artillery, with which company he saw service on Gallipoli, nd he was temporarily put out of action at both Gallipoli and Suez. After the withdrawal from the Peninsula he proceeded to France and was attached to the 97th Battery Royal Field Artillery. He was killed in action on the 21st October, 1916, aged 27 years,
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