SHAFTO, Robert Ralston
Service Number: | 83 |
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Enlisted: | 15 July 1915, Perth, Western Australia |
Last Rank: | Driver |
Last Unit: | Australian Motor Transport Company |
Born: | Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 9 July 1897 |
Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Guildford Grammar School |
Occupation: | Engineer/ Mechanic and Theatre operator |
Died: | Heart Failure, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia, 1 January 1974, aged 76 years |
Cemetery: |
Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW |
Memorials: | Double Bay War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
15 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 83, Perth, Western Australia | |
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21 Dec 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Driver, 83, Motor Drivers, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '24' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Barambah embarkation_ship_number: A37 public_note: '' | |
21 Dec 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 83, Motor Drivers, HMAT Barambah, Fremantle | |
26 Feb 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 83, Australian Motor Transport Company |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Robert Ralston SHAFTO was born in Perth, Western Australia on 9th July, 1897
His parents were Thomas Alfred SHAFTO & Elizabeth Mary Christina RALSTON
He was invalided back to Australia & returned on 22nd February, 1917
He married Gladys Lillian BURLING in Sydney in 1917 - marriage was annulled & in 1920 in Western Australia he married a Florence CAMPELL - divorced 1925
He remarried to Gladys in Victoria in 1925