Robert Alick SHMITH

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Service Number:	VX18085
Enlisted:	28 May 1940
Last Rank:	Bombardier
Last Unit:	2nd/12th Field Regiment
Born:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 4 April 1922
Home Town:	St Kilda, Port Phillip, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Photographer
Died:	Killed in Action, Egypt, 15 June 1941, aged 19 years
Cemetery:	Tobruk War Cemetery, Tobruk, Libya Plot 4. Row A. Grave 7.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Victorian Jewish War Memorial

28 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Gunner, VX18085
28 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Bombardier, VX18085, 2nd/12th Field Regiment
17 Nov 1940:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Gunner, HMT Stratheden
15 Jun 1941:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Bombardier, VX18085, 2nd/12th Field Regiment

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Mention in Despatches.

Born 4 April 1920 Melbourne, Victoria.

Son of Frank Percival SHMITH & Dorothy Ethel née LITTLE married 1921

Reg No 6795 Stepson of Mr Percy John Bingeman of St Kilda.

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Bombardier, Royal Australian Artillery.

Age: 21. VX18085

Posting on Death: 2/12th Field Regiment, he was killed in action in Egypt.

His name is located at panel 17 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial

Step-son of Mr. P. J. Bingeman, of St. Kilda, Victoria, Australi