REDFERN, Robert Roy
| Service Number: | 3115 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 September 1916, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 36th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lawrence, New South Wales, Australia, 20 May 1898 |
| Home Town: | Milton, Shoalhaven Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Appendicitis, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 30 January 1939, aged 40 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 1-74. 100. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Sep 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3115, Sydney, New South Wales | |
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| 24 Jan 1917: | Involvement Private, 3115, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Jan 1917: | Embarked Private, 3115, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Sydney | |
| 15 Oct 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 36th Infantry Battalion | |
| 20 Apr 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3115, 36th Infantry Battalion, German Spring Offensive 1918, Gassed (mild) but still a Blighty | |
| 31 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3115, 36th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting peacefully at Sandgate Cemetery.
82 years ago today, on the Tuesday afternoon of the 31st January 1939, Private Robert Roy Redfern, 36th Battalion (Reg No-3115), clerk from "Kuigah", Church Street, Randwick, New South Wales and Concord West, N.S.W. and The Junction, Newcastle, N.S.W., father of three (Robert, William, Barbara), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 41. ANGLICAN 1-74. 100.
Born at Lawrence, New South Wales on the 17th October 1897 to Arthur Samuel and Fanny Ellen Redfern of Milton Public School, Thomas Street, Milton, New South Wales; husband of Clara Elsie Redfern nee Back (married 1922, Merewether, N.S.W., died 1988, district unknown, 49 years a widow), Robert enlisted September 1916 with the 35th Battalion at Sydney, N.S.W.
Wounded in action - 20.4.1918 (gassed, mild), Robert was invalided home May 1919, being discharged July 1919.
Mr Redfern’s name has been inscribed on the WW1 Railway Remembrance Wall Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at Robert’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King and Country.
Service record states "Died 30/1/1939".
Plaque in New South Wales Garden of Remembrance.
Many thanks to Robert's daughter Barbara Shepley for the notification, photos and family history.
Lest We Forget.
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