PLATT, Robert
| Service Number: | 3685 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 52nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 26 November 1898 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Myocardial infarction, coronary atherosclerosis , Brisbane, Queensland, Australia , 4 July 1966, aged 67 years |
| Cemetery: |
Hemmant Cemetery and Crematorium, Brisbane, Queensland Plot LAWN-2-873 Memorial ID 193916209 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 31 Oct 1917: | Involvement Private, 3685, 52nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
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| 31 Oct 1917: | Embarked Private, 3685, 52nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 7 May 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3685, 52nd Infantry Battalion, Admission to Exter War Hospital with Gun Shot Wound in Right Leg |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chrystal Platt
Robert Platt was born 26 November 1898 in Brisbane, QLD to Robert & Sarah Jane (Pickles). Robert is one of six children, 5 brothers and one sister.
Platt served in the 52nd Battalion in the Australian Imperial Force at the age of 18 years and 6 months. He embarked on the Euripides, 31 October 1917 bound for Egypt. Platt was wounded in action, France, May 1918 with a severe gunshot wound in his right leg. A wound which resulted in a return to Australia 4 January 1919 and a medical discharge a year later from ankyosis - injuries relating to gun shot wounds in his right leg.
After his service in the AIF, Platt worked as a tramways inspector in his hometown of Brisbane, QLD; wedded Eileen Margaret O’Neill, 5 August 1924. O’Neill, a daughter of Irish immigrants, Michael and Mary Kate O’Neill. Together they had two children, Robert Francis & Audrey Eleanor.
Robert Platt, passed away in 1966. Survived by his wife, children and grand children.
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