BEATH, Robert
| Service Numbers: | 596, 4962 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 August 1914, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 57th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 9 June 1884 |
| Home Town: | Carrington, Great Lakes, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Carrington State School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Painter/Sign writer |
| Died: | Gas shell burns, 6th General Hospital, Rouen, France, 3 October 1918, aged 34 years |
| Cemetery: |
St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen St. Sever emetery Extension (Block R, Plot III, Row M, Grave No. 5), Rouen, France, St Sever Cemetery Extension, Haute-Normandie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hamilton War Memorial, Tighe's Hill Public School HR |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 596, 6th Infantry Battalion, Sydney, New South Wales | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 596, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement AIF WW1, Driver, 596, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Mar 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4962, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne | |
| 7 Mar 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4962, 6th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Apr 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 57th Infantry Battalion | |
| 30 Sep 1918: | Wounded Breaching the Hindenburg Line - Cambrai / St Quentin Canal, GSW (legs & gassed) | |
| 3 Oct 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 4962, 57th Infantry Battalion, "The Last Hundred Days", --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4962 awm_unit: 57 Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1918-10-03 |
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From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
An Original Anzac awaiting memorialisation at Sandgate Cemetery.
103 years ago today, on the 3rd October 1918, Sergeant Robert Beath, 2nd & 57th Battalions (Reg No’s -596 & 4962), painter and signwriter (Walsh Island Government Dockyard, Newcastle, N.S.W.), father of two (Agnes Catherine and Robert William), Died of Wounds, age 34.
Born at Carrington, New South Wales on the 9th June 1884 to Robert S (died 1939) Beath of 3 Buxton Street, Adamstown, N.S.W.; husband of Eileen Grace Beath nee Kelly (married 1912, Wickham, N.S.W., died?) of 16 James Street, Hamilton, New South Wales and Mitchell Street, Stockton, N.S.W. and 126 Brougham Street, Darlinghurst, N.S.W., Robert enlisted August 1914 with the 2nd Battalion at Randwick, N.S.W.
Returned to Australia - 2.9.1915 (venereal disease, did not returned home to Hamilton).
Re-embarked-7.3.1916, Melbourne, VIC.
Admitted to hospital 24.1.1917 (myalgia & rheumatism).
Wounded in action - 29.9.1918 (SW legs and gassed, dangerously ill.)
Robert is resting at St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France. Block R Plot III Row M Grave 5.
Mr. Beath’s name has been inscribed on the Hamilton (Gregson Park) War Memorial, Hamilton Municipal District Roll of Honor, Tighes Hill Public School Honor Roll (photos, unveiled on the 24th May 1918, 133 names originally inscribed, 144 names now inscribed, 20 Fallen, Robert’s name not indicated as Fallen), Newcastle Lodge-Grand United Order of Druids Roll of Honour - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137097616 and the Newcastle Lodge No. 423 Ancient Order of Druids Roll of Honour. Name probably inscribed on the Tighes Hill Pride of Ferndale Lodge G.U.O.O.F. Roll of Honour.
There is no memorial inscription on the headstone of parents Robert S and Sarah Beath, and I am unable to erect a Memorial cross, so I have placed poppies in remembrance of their son’s supreme sacrifice for God, King and Country. ANGLICAN 2-127. 7.
Served in the Boer War (Royal Marines).
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