Robert Andrew Sinclair AITKEN

AITKEN, Robert Andrew Sinclair

Service Number: 4971
Enlisted: 7 January 1916, Adelaide, South Australia
Last Rank: Lance Corporal
Last Unit: 27th Infantry Battalion
Born: Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland, 1886
Home Town: Goodwood, Unley, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Master Tailor
Died: Killed in Action, France, 5 November 1916
Cemetery: AIF Burial Ground, Grass Lane, Flers, France
Special Memorial 13 , AIF Burial Ground, Flers, Picardie, France
Memorials: Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Unley Town Hall WW1 Honour Board
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World War 1 Service

7 Jan 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Adelaide, South Australia
27 Jun 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4971, 27th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1,

HMAT Barambaf

Not imported from embarkation roll

 

 

 

27 Jun 1916: Involvement Private, 4971, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Barambah embarkation_ship_number: A37 public_note: ''
27 Jun 1916: Embarked Private, 4971, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Barambah, Melbourne
27 Jun 1916: Embarked AIF WW1, HMAT Barambah A37
5 Nov 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 4971, 27th Infantry Battalion, 'The Winter Offensive' - Flers/Gueudecourt winter of 1916/17
Date unknown: Involvement 27th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières

Obituary


The Advertiser Thursday 26 April 1917 page 8

THE LATE LANCE CORPORAL R A. S AITKEN
Lance Corporal Aitken of Petersburg, who was reported missing some time ago has now been reported killed in action. He was born in the Shetland Islands in 1888, but was brought up in Edinburgh. With his wife he arrived in Adelaide five years ago, and after some months' residence at Parkside he took a share in a tailoring business at Petersburg. During their residence of three years there Mr. and Mrs. Aitken were earnest supporters of the local Presbyterian Church, of which Mr. Aitken was secretary and an elder. He enlisted in January, 1916, and qualified as a sergeant. In June he was chosen to command a company of reinforcements. When volunteers were called for service at the front he offered and left for France in September aver one month in camp on Salisbury Plain. By October 21 he was in the trenches, and he was killed in action on November 5. Both as a man and an officer he was very popular.

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Biography

Born Park Lane, Lerwick, Shetland Islands

Son of Andrew John AITKEN and Christina WILLIAMSON

he married Jane Drummond WATSON on 5th October, 1910 in Edinburgh, Scotland