GLAZEBROOK, Robert
| Service Number: | 3096 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 56th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Woollahra, New South Wales. Australia, 1887 |
| Home Town: | Woollahra, Woollahra, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Double Bay Superior Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Telephone mechanic |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 2 April 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Double Bay War Memorial, Sydney NSW Post Master General's Department Honour Roll, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3096, 20th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 20 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 3096, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 3096, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suevic, Sydney | |
| 2 Apr 1917: | Involvement Private, 3096, 56th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3096 awm_unit: 56th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-04-02 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Robert Glazebrook’s older brother, 4196 Pte. Henry Glazebrook 45th Battalion AIF, died of wounds 8 August 1916 at Pozieres, aged 30.
One of Robert’s mates made a ststement in his Red Cross file,
“Glazebrook was known always known as ‘Glazie’ and was in my A Company. He was one of 15 of us left to hold a temporary trench where we had dug ourselves in the Wood just behind Louverval about 2 miles from Bullecourt. We had a bad time from shells and had but little sleep for two or three nights, wet through and standing in water. Glazie was just the life and soul of the party, smiling, whistling, and bucking all of us up with his snatches of song etc. He was a splendid fellow. About 2 pm on the 2nd April it was his turn to take post, that is to observe in the trench, but just peeping over. He had been there about an hour all the time passing comments about the Germans in front. The shells were travelling about 15 yards to our rear, just over the top of the tranch. At last a shell came through thr parapet, just where Glazie was and killed him.”
In his service file, Robert and his brother Henry’s medals, plaques and a mother’s ribbon were returned to the Base Records Office in Canberra during 1940, by the NSW RSL. The items were left at their office by an unknown person who intimated that their mother had just passed away.