Robert Stanley OWEN

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Service Number:	3618
Enlisted:	8 July 1915, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Second Lieutenant
Last Unit:	57th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Williamstown, Victoria, Australia, 1896
Home Town:	Box Hill, Whitehorse, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Mont Albert, Victoria, Australia, 18 September 1951, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Dodonaea, Garden N7, Bed 1, Rose 01
Memorials:	Shire of Nunawading Honour Roll

8 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 3618, 2nd Divisional Signal Company, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
23 Nov 1915:	Involvement Corporal, 3618, 2nd Divisional Signal Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: ''
23 Nov 1915:	Embarked Corporal, 3618, 2nd Divisional Signal Company, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne
9 May 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Corporal, 5th Divisional Signal Company
5 Nov 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 57th Infantry Battalion, From 5th Divisional Signal Company
22 Aug 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 57th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 3rd Military District

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Son of Robert Owen and Sophia Peyonnet Owen nee Wilson of Station Street, Box Hill, Victoria.

Next of kin later changed to his brother A.H. Owen of William Street, Melbourne, Victoria

Commenced return to Australia on 15 May 1919 aboard HT Orontes disembarking on 28 June 1919

Medals: 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1925c Robert married Marion Edith Forbes in Victoria.

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