Robert Underdown EWENS

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EWENS, Robert Underdown

Service Number:	22831
Enlisted:	6 February 1939
Last Rank:	Able Seaman
Last Unit:	HMAS Sydney (II) - D48 WW2
Born:	Port Lincoln, South Australia, 27 May 1920
Home Town:	Fullarton, Unley, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Junior Constable
Died:	Killed in Action, Indian Ocean, 20 November 1941, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Birkenhead HMAS Sydney (II) D48 Memorial, Carnarvon HMAS Sydney II Memorial, Carnarvon Walk of Remembrance, Geraldton HMAS Sydney II Memorial, Plymouth Naval Memorial to the Missing / Lost at Sea

World War 2 Service

6 Feb 1939:	Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, 22831, HMAS Sydney (II) - D48 WW2
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of William Robert and Ida Ruby Ewens, of Fullarton, South Australia.

A.B. Robert Underdown Ewens, 21, second son of Mr and Mrs. W. R Ewens, of Watson street, Fullarton, was a junior constable. He resigned a few months before the outbreak of war to join the R.A.N His younger brother Ross, also a junior constable, was granted leave to serve with the navy. For four generations the family has been associated with the police force.
A B. Ewens was a keen rifleman and was an anti-aircraft gunner aboard his ship.

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