Robert James MacGregor BARNET

BARNET, Robert James MacGregor

Service Number: 2662
Enlisted: 4 January 1916
Last Rank: Driver
Last Unit: 2nd/1st Australian Corps Ammunition Park
Born: Camberwarra, New South Wales, Australia, 1895
Home Town: Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales
Schooling: Wollongong District School, Sydney Grammar School, St. Andrew's College University of Sydney
Occupation: Surveyor's Assistant
Died: Shot in head whilst cleaning a rifle (accidental), No 10 Casualty Clearing Station, Belgium , 27 August 1916
Cemetery: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
Plot IX, Row D, Grave 3A
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Sydney Grammar School WW1 Honour Board
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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Barnet.—Driver Robert James McGregor Barnet, who died of wounds in France August 27, 1916, dearly-loved elder son of the Rev. D. McKay Barnet and Jessie Barnet, The Manse, Wollongong. "Whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it."