WING, Robert George
| Service Number: | 2531 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 June 1915, Claremont, Tas. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 15th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ulverstone, Tas., 1896 |
| Home Town: | Gunns Plains, Central Coast, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Pozieres, France, 9 August 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gunns Plains District Roll of Honour WW1, Gunns Plains Memorial Seat, Gunns Plains Roll of Honor WW1, Ulverstone Shrine of Remembrance, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2531, 15th Infantry Battalion, Claremont, Tas. | |
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| 17 Jul 1915: | Involvement Private, 2531, 15th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Jul 1915: | Embarked Private, 2531, 15th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Orsova, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Ebenezer J. and Lilian M. WING
WING.-In loving memory of our dear son and brother, Robert George (Bob) Wing, killed at Pozieres, August 9, 1916.
Just au revoir until one day we meet you.
-Inserted by his sorrowing parents, brothers and sisters, and sister-in-law.
Mrs. E.J. Wing of Gunn's Plains has received a letter from Private E Watling concerning the death of her son Private R. G. (Bob.) Wing. Private Watling writes from Norfolk War Hospital, England, on September 15:-I expect by this time you have heard the sad news concerning your son (Private R. G. Wing). I was wounded on August 8, whilst we were attacking the Germans at Pozieres. Your lad got through that charge all right, but was killed on August 9. I feel it is my duty to write you this, as he and I were like brothers. We enlisted about the same time in Tasmania, and have been together ever since. I may tell you your boy was well liked by all in the battalion, and you can rest assured that he died doing his duty for King and country. I saw him about an hour before we charged. We were both on machine guns, but not together, and he was just the same as ever. My two brothers were killed on Gallipoli, and my mother did not know for ten months after, and I think it is as well to know first as last. I also have another brother in France somewhere. So you can imagine the anxiety of my father and mother, with two dead, one wounded, and another one in it somewhere. I got a bullet through my arm, causing me to lose the use of it. I am getting electrical treatment, so am hoping to have the use of it again some day. I have written this with my left hand; so I hope you can read it. I have one of Bob's photos and would not part with it for worlds.
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