CARBERRY, Robert
| Service Number: | NX57136 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/3rd Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Lidcombe, New South Wales, Australia, 27 February 1915 |
| Home Town: | Lidcombe, Auburn, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Concrete Pipe Moulder |
| Died: | Injuries, New Guinea, 10 December 1943, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
Lae War Cemetery T. A. 4. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, NX57136 | |
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| 11 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX57136, 2nd/3rd Pioneer Battalion | |
| 8 Aug 1940: | Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 2nd/3rd Pioneer Battalion | |
| 1 Nov 1941: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX57136, 2nd/3rd Pioneer Battalion, Sydney, disembarked Middle East. RTA 23-01-1943. | |
| 3 Aug 1943: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX57136, 2nd/3rd Pioneer Battalion, Cairns, disembarked New Guinea. | |
| 10 Dec 1943: | Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX57136, 2nd/3rd Pioneer Battalion, Died from injuries and burns received accidental explosion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Karen Standen
SHOALHAVEN AND NOWRA NEWS
Wednesday, June 11, 1947
The Marriott Park Memorial Tree Planting Ceremony
The first of a series of ceremonies, each to honour the men of the district who made the great sacrifice in the war just ended, was carried out at Marriott Park on Thursday afternoon last...eleven further memorial trees were planted in memory of relatives who paid the supreme sacrifice...Mrs. R. Harvey, in remembrance of her brother, Robert Carberry.
While the newspaper provided the wrong initial for Mrs Harvey, she was Robert's eldest sister Emma. Mrs E. T. M. Harvey was still living in Nowra when the Princes Highway was redeveloped during the 1980's. How sad to witness not only the removal of the memorial trees, but the tree she had planted in memory of her brother. Robert's plaque is not among the seven currently held by the Nowra RSL Sub-branch.
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