GREENFIELD, Robert
| Service Number: | 196 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 September 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 14th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Wandsworth, London, England, October 1892 |
| Home Town: | London, England, United Kingdom |
| Schooling: | London County Council School, Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, London, England |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 8 August 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 196, 14th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 196, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 196, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 26 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 196, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 8 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 196, 14th Infantry Battalion, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
London born Robert Greenfield enlisted at Melbourne Vic on 5 September 1914, aged 21 years & 11 months.
Assigned to the 14th Battalion AIF, he arrived in Egypt on 31 January 1915. After several months of training, the battalion embarked for Lemnos on 12 April 1915, and then for Gallipoli on 25 April 1915.
The battalion landed at Gallipoli on the morning of 26 April 1915, taking up initial positions along Shrapnel Gully under heavy fire, then moving up to Quinn's Post and Courtney's Post on 27 April 1915.
Robert Greenfield was listed as killed in action on 8 August 1915 following the unsuccessful attack on Hill 971 as part of the August Offensive. There is a very high probability he was killed at or near a place called Abdel Rahman Bair (the ridgeline immediately before Hill 971) where the 14th Battalion was caught in the open by well sited Turkish machine guns and driven back with significant casualties (36 killed, 93 wounded and 128 missing - later confirmed killed/captured).
Robert Greenfield's body was never recovered and he is memorialised at the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli.