TUBBY, Robert Alfred
| Service Number: | 1842 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 January 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, 29 November 1891 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | War Service related , Fremantle, 8 Australian General Hospital, Western Australia, 14 March 1920, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Mingenew Upper Irwin Roads Board District Roll of Honor WW1, Morawa War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1842, 11th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 19 Apr 1915: | Involvement Private, 1842, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Apr 1915: | Embarked Private, 1842, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Argyllshire, Fremantle | |
| 17 Aug 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
| 18 Aug 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
| 3 Sep 1916: | Imprisoned |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Peter Rankin
Robert was wounded in action and taken prisoner of war on the 3-9-1916.
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Robert Tubby was raised at Great Yarmouth in England. He came out to Western Australia during 1911. He was mentioned as enlisting from Mullewa, Western Australia, and was probably working on a farm there at the time.
Back in Europe, his older brother, Private James Henry Tubby, 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards, was killed in action 21 October 1914 at Zonnebeke, Belgium.
Robert fought at Gallipoli with the 11th Battalion from June 1915 until he was evacuated sick during mid-September 1915. He transferred to the 51st Battalion during the reorganisation of the AIF in Egypt during early 1916. He was promoted to Lance Corporal a couple weeks before the 51st Battalion made their attack on Mouquet Farm on 3 September 1916. During the assault many men of the Battalion became trapped within the maze of shell holes and trenches which surrounded the Farm. Robert was badly wounded by grenade fragments in the jaw and hip and after sheltering in a dugout, found himself and others surrounded by counter attacking Germans.
He would be a prisoner of the Germans for over two years before he was repatriated to England during December 1918. He was returned to Australia a few months later, spending most of the journey in the ship’s hospital. He was admitted to the No.8 Australian General Hospital in Fremantle on 25 March 1919, as his hip was giving trouble, and a note in his file says “G.S.W. hip, some weakness and wasting.” After two months he was discharged.
Tubby died on 14 March 1920, in the same hospital, presumably after an operation on the hip, cause of death was given as the wound and ‘haemorrhage after aneurysm.’
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