DALY, Robert William
| Service Number: | 2664 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 August 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 60th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Toombullup, Victoria, Australia , April 1895 |
| Home Town: | Omeo, East Gippsland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Wounds, 60th Canadian Clearing Station, Vignacourt, France, 25 April 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Vignacourt British Cemetery, Picardie Plot I, Row D, Grave No. 21 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Benalla War Memorial, Peranbin Primary College (Tatong) Pictorial HR, Tatong Pictorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Aug 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2664, 60th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 2664, 60th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 2664, 60th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne | |
| 12 Oct 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 60th Infantry Battalion | |
| 11 Apr 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 60th Infantry Battalion | |
| 25 Apr 1918: | Involvement Corporal, 2664, 60th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2664 awm_unit: 60th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-04-25 |
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From François Berthout
Today, on this day of comemoration of ANZAC DAY (2020), I would like to pay a very respectful and grateful tribute to Corporal number 2664 Robert William Daly who fought in the 60th Australian infantry battalion and who died of his wounds 102 years ago, on April 25, 1918 at the age of 23🌺
Robert William Daly was born in 1894 in Toombullup, Victoria, Australia and he was the son of Margaret Daly and lived in Omeo, Victoria. Before the war Robert worked as a farmer
Enlisted on September 1, 1916 in the 60th Australian Infantry Battalion, 6th Reinforcement, he embarked with his unit from Melbourne, Victoria on board HMAT A71 Nestor.
Disembarked in Plymouth, England, on November 16, 1916, he received his training in the 15th Training Battalion in Murdcott, England, soon after he joined his battalion to embark for France.Disembarked in Le Havre, France on September 16, 1917, he joined the Belgian front and the trenches on October 5 and was promoted Lance Corporal then Corporal on October 12 and he fought at Ypres then he and his battalion joined the Somme front in March 1917
Robert fought at La Neuville, Corbie, Bonnay-Sur-Somme, then on April 24 during the German offensive to take Villers Bretonneux he was wounded and evacuated to Vignacourt where he died the next day at the age of 23
Today Robert William Daly rests in peace at Vignacourt British Cemetery,Somme.
Thank you Robert, today we celebrate the memory of all your comrades who fought and who fell by your side, we honor your memory with great respect, all united around you, hand in hand, today Robert , we have a respectful thought for you, Australia, New Zealand and all the peoples of the worlds are united to make the flame of Remembrance shine. We will never forget the young man you were, courageous and brave with dreams of future that the war has shattered but your hopes for peace are still intact and we preserve it with love and respect, we will always remember you and we will always be grateful to you.At the going down of the sun and in the Morning,we will remember hhim,we will remember them🌺
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