Robert Douglas BREESE

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BREESE, Robert Douglas

Service Numbers:	2277, N68026
Enlisted:	31 January 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	34th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Wingham, New South Wales, Australia, 10 March 1897
Home Town:	Islington, Newcastle, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Wickham, New South Wales, Australia, 6 January 1949, aged 51 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-162. 43.
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World War 1 Service

31 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2277, 34th Infantry Battalion
17 Oct 1916:	Involvement Private, 2277, 34th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: ''
17 Oct 1916:	Embarked Private, 2277, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Sydney
19 Sep 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2277, 34th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD

World War 2 Service

7 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, N68026

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Pte Breese served during The Great War and with the 2nd A.I.F.

72 years ago today, on the Saturday morning of the 8th January 1949, Private Robert Douglas Breese, 34th Battalion (Reg No-2277), horse driver from 63 Maitland Road, Islington, New South Wales and 5 Dangar Street, Wickham, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 51. ANGLICAN 3-162. 43.

Born at Wingham, New South Wales on the 10th March 1897 to Charles Douglas Gwynwellyn and Frances Florence Breese nee Brown (DENOVAN) of 160 Maitland Road, Islington, N.S.W.; husband of Ada Breese nee Inglis (married 1936, Wickham, N.S.W., died 1951, Paddington, N.S.W.), Robert enlisted January 1916 at Rutherford, N.S.W.

Admitted to hospital 28.1.1918 (gastritis), Robert returned home August 1919, being discharged on the 11th October 1919.

Mr Breese’s name has been inscribed on the Wickham Superior Public School Roll of Honour and the Cessnock War Memorial (incorrect spelling as BREEZE, 1696 names inscribed, photos courtesy of David Harrower).

Robert’s name has not been inscribed on the family headstone, and I am unable to place a wooden cross at the gravesite, so I have placed poppies to honour his service and sacrifice for God, King and Country.

http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/.../index.php...

Service Record states "Died War Service, Imp W G Com -11.4.49".

Also served 2nd A.I.F. (N68026, Garrison Battalion).

I submitted an application to DVA April 2016 asking for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque to be placed at the New South Wales Garden of Remembrance at Rookwood, Sydney, but this was declined June 2016 as a Plaque had already been installed.

Lest We Forget.

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