DICKSON, Robert Sinclair
Service Number: | 677 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 6th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland., date not yet discovered |
Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Draper |
Died: | Killed in Action, Bailleul, France, 25 April 1918, age not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension Plot II, Row B, Grave No. 9, Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension, Bailleul, Nord Pas de Calais, France |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
9 May 1917: | Involvement Private, 677, 1st Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
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9 May 1917: | Embarked Private, 677, 1st Machine Gun Company, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney | |
25 Apr 1918: | Involvement Private, 677, 6th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 677 awm_unit: 6th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-04-25 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
6th Bn.Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
He was 32 and the son of James and Georgina Sinclair Dickson, of "Ballarat," Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotlandand sometime of Ochilton Road, Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland.
Enlistment date-28 November 1916
Rank on enlistment-Private
Unit name-1st Machine Gun Company, 12th Reinforcement
Age at embarkation-30
He is remembered in the town of his birth, Dollar as follows:
United Free Church
West Church
St Columba Church
Dollar Academy War Memorial.