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SALE, Robert Henry Moodkee
Personal Details
Service Number: | 2508 |
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Enlisted: | 10 July 1915, Claremont, Tasmania |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 28 May 1894 |
Home Town: | Avoca, Northern Midlands, Tasmania |
Schooling: | England, United Kingdom |
Occupation: | Postal Assistant |
Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 19 September 1917, aged 23 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
Service History
World War 1 Service
24 Jun 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2508, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Kanowna embarkation_ship_number: A61 public_note: '' | |
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10 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2508, 12th Infantry Battalion, Claremont, Tasmania | |
10 Aug 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2508, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Persic Melbourne |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Daryl Jones
Robert Henry Moodkee SALE was born on 28th May, 1894 in Toowoomba, Queensland
he was the son of the Reverend George Augustus SALE and Mabel Florence ENGLEDEER, of the Vicarage, Levuka, Fiji
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The date of embarkation listed in his National Archives file is incorrect - should read 10th August, 1915