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BARNET, Robert James MacGregor
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | 2662 |
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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 |
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."