Robert John HAIGH

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Service Number:	32115
Enlisted:	8 October 1916, Enlisted at the Sydney Showgrounds, NSW
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	5th Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Botany, New South Wales, Australia, 1892
Home Town:	Auburn, Auburn, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	New South Wales, Australia , 15 January 1977, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW Wall RY, Niche 32
Memorials:

8 Oct 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 32115, 4th Divisional Ammunition Column, Enlisted at the Sydney Showgrounds, NSW
10 Oct 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 5th Field Artillery Brigade
10 Feb 1917:	Involvement Gunner, 32115, 4th Divisional Ammunition Column, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Osterley embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
10 Feb 1917:	Embarked Gunner, 32115, 4th Divisional Ammunition Column, RMS Osterley, Sydney
22 Aug 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column
4 Sep 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 5th Field Artillery Brigade
6 Nov 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Gunner, 32115, 5th Field Artillery Brigade
30 Aug 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Gunner, 32115, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , Second occasion. Severe shell wound to the left elbow. Invalided to England on 3 September 1918
15 May 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 32115, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , Discharged at the 2nd Military District as medically unfit due to wounding

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Son of Thomas Haigh and Anne Elizabeth Haigh of Graham Street, Auburn, NSW

Commenced return to Australia on 7 February 1919 aboard HT Lancashire disembarking on 2 April 1919

Medals: Britsh War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1919c Robert married Myra E. Pye in Aubuern, NSW