Robert Samuel HIGGS

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Service Number:	2651
Enlisted:	2 August 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	1st Veterinary Section
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1892
Home Town:	Campsie, Canterbury, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Grocer Carter
Died:	Rockdale, New South Wales, Australia, 28 February 1957, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Woronora Memorial Park, Sutherland, New South Wales Section AA, Row Rose Garden 24, Site 0086
Memorials:

2 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2651, 19th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
2 Nov 1915:	Involvement Private, 2651, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
2 Nov 1915:	Embarked Private, 2651, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney
16 Feb 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 4th Infantry Battalion
14 May 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 1st Mobile Veterinary Section
18 May 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 1st Veterinary Evacuation Station
28 Apr 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2651, 1st Veterinary Section, Discharged at the 2nd Military District as medically unfit

Son of Robert Higgs and Caroline Sophia Higgs of Browning Street, Campsie, NSW

Commenced return to Australia on 15 January 1919 aboard HT Ciry of Exeter disembarking on 2 March 1919 at Melbourne for onward travel to Sydney

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1920c Robert married Thelma M.P. Richards in Canterbury, NSW