Robert Alfred WATSON

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Service Number:	1590
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	5th Victorian Mounted Rifles
Born:	Eaglehawk, Victoria, Australia, 6 August 1868
Home Town:	Pomborneit, Corangamite, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Station Hand
Died:	Enteric Fever, Middelburg, South Africa, Middelburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa, 6 December 1901, aged 33 years
Cemetery:	Old Middelburg Municipal Cemetery, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bairnsdale Boer War Memorial, Ballarat Boer War Memorial (Queen Victoria Square), Charlton Boer War Memorial

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 1590
1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 1590, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles
15 Feb 1901:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 1590, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, Embarked from Port Melbourne on the "Orient".
12 Jun 1901:	Wounded Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 1590, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, Severely wounded when Boers attacked his 5VMR Wilmansrust encampment. GSW (Chest).
6 Dec 1901:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 1590, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, D.O.D.

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