OVEREND, Robert
| Service Number: | 1906 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 4th Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, Scotland, , date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Lithgow, Lithgow, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 6 December 1916, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Bernafay Wood British Cemetery, Montauban Grave F. 50., Bernafay Wood British Cemetery, Montauban, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bathurst War Memorial Carillon, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Oct 1915: | Involvement Sapper, 1906, 1st Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: '' | |
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| 16 Oct 1915: | Embarked Sapper, 1906, 1st Field Company Engineers, HMAT Port Lincoln, Melbourne | |
| 6 Dec 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 1906, 4th Field Company Engineers, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1906 awm_unit: 4th Field Company, Australian Engineers awm_rank: Sapper awm_died_date: 1916-12-06 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 40 and the husband of Ada Emma Overend, of 44, Upper Elmers End Rd., Beckenham, Kent.
He is remembered on the Innerleithen War Memorials. There is an external one and the stained Glass Windows in the church record the names of the fallen.
Innerleithen (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Leitheann) is a civil parish and a small town in the committee area of Tweeddale, in the Scottish Borders. It was formerly in the historic county of Peeblesshire or Tweeddale.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He is also honoured in the book of remembrance for Tweeddale. [Roll of honour of Peebleshire men killed in the Great War, 1914-1918. With portraits.]
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