Robert BAIR

BAIR, Robert

Service Number: VX92192
Enlisted: 5 May 1943
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/14th Infantry Battalion
Born: Leongatha, Victoria, Australia, 26 March 1925
Home Town: Leongatha, South Gippsland, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Station Hand (Cane Cutter)
Died: Killed in Action, Balikpapan, Borneo, 6 July 1945, aged 20 years
Cemetery: Labuan War Cemetery
Burial reference: - Plot 13. Row B. Grave 5. Personal Inscription: - "REST IN PEACE".
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Private, VX92192
5 May 1943: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX92192, 2nd/14th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Dianne Black

Parents: -  Arthur Robert James Bair and Agnes Madeline Bair (nee McCarthy), Leongatha, Victoria, Australia.

Private Robert Bair is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Leongatha Victoria,and Panel 37 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.