MCQUEEN, Robert Peter
| Service Number: | 503 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 December 1915, 1 year Senior Cadets |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 54th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Carrington, New South Wales , Australia, 5 October 1895 |
| Home Town: | Carrington, Great Lakes, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Dairyman |
| Died: | Wounds, No. 5 General Hospital, Rouen, France, 3 March 1917, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen Block O, Plot VII, Row C, Grave No. 2 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Carrington Connolly Park War Memorial Gates, Carrington Football Club HR |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Dec 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 503, 35th Infantry Battalion, 1 year Senior Cadets | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Corporal, 503, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Corporal, 503, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 3 Mar 1917: | Involvement Private, 503, 54th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 503 awm_unit: 54th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-03-03 |
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From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 5th March 1917, Private (runner) Robert Peter McQueen, referred to as Bob, 54th Battalion (Reg No-503A), dairyman (Mr. Richard's dairy farm, Dempsey Island, N.S.W.), from 53 Gipps Street, Carrington, New South Wales, Died of Wounds at No. 5 General Hospital, Rouen, France, age 21.
No Roll of Honour circular submitted.
Born at Carrington, New South Wales on the 5th October 1895 to Robert (died 11.9.1921, Newcastle Hospital, N.S.W., age 59), and Ellen Finlay McQueen (died 27.1.1936, 53 Gipps Street, Carrington, N.S.W., age 71, mother of 7), Bob enlisted on the 2nd December 1915 with the 35th Battalion at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A24 Benalla on the 1st May 1916.
Transferred from 35th to 56th Battalion 9.9.1916.
Wounded in action - 21.1.1917 (GSW thigh, left arm, dangerously ill, Needle trench at Montauban).
Admitted to hospital 24.1.1917.
Mr. McQueen is resting at St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France. Block O Plot VII Row C Grave 2.
Place of Association - Carrington, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Bob’s name has been inscribed on the Carrington Football Club Roll of Honor, Carrington Methodist Church Roll of Honour, Carrington Citizens' Memorial Gates, Carrington Municipal District Roll of Honor, Mosquito Island Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
Bob has been memorialised at the McQueen gravesite, and I have placed poppies in remembrance of their son’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) B SW. 43.
Older brother John Thomas McQueen (Jack, born 22.6.1891, Carrington, N.S.W., labourer (BHP steelworks), from 53 Gipps Street, Carrington, New South Wales, enlisted 26.7.1915, 20th Battalion, Reg No-2412, wounded in action - 15.5.1917 (shell shock), 26.9.1917 (GSW right thigh), RTA 22.5.1918, 56th Battalion, died 8.10.1962, Carrington, N.S.W., age 71, not officially commemorated.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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