HOOD, Robert
| Service Number: | 362 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Moyston, Victoria, Australia, 26 July 1873 |
| Home Town: | Murarrie, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 18 July 1946, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland Wall 4/Section 8 |
| Memorials: | Toowoomba Grammar School South African Honour Roll |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 362, Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 18 May 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 362, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 475 notes 4th QIB embarked 18 May 1900 aboard Manchester Port arriving Beira 14 Jun 1900. | |
| 30 Oct 1900: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 362, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, National Archives Australia- Boer War Dossier notes invalided returned to Australia aboard Moravian arriving Brisbane 23 Oct 1900, discharged 30 Oct 1900. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
TENNIS CHAMPION'S
FATHER DIES
Mr. R. R. Hood, sen., of Murarrie who died yesterday, was a brother of the prominent associate golfer. Miss Dot Hood and was the father; of the Australian tennis champion, Mrs. Westacott.
Mr. Hood, who was a Boer War veteran, was a prominent horseman in his early life and played a big part in the rise to fame of his daughter in early coaching and later by providing good practice on their homc court.
Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Robert Hood was born on 26 Jul 1873 at Moyston (Ararat), Victoria, a son to William Walter Hood and Mary Jane Hood (nee Scales). He married Gertrude Lucy Harding in Queensland on 27 Apr 1905.
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