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Robert Edgar FORD

Regimental number4523
Place of birthYokohama, Japan
SchoolBlackheath, England
Age on arrival in Australia18 or 20
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationPainter
AddressClifton, Queensland
Marital statusMarried
Age at embarkation40
Next of kinWife, Mrs. Henrietta Undine Ford, Clifton, Queensland
Previous military serviceBritish Navy
Enlistment date5 October 1916
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name31st Battalion, 12th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/48/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A64 Demosthenes on 23 December 1916
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll31st Battalion
FateKilled in Action 26 September 1917
Place of death or woundingPolygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium
Age at death41
Age at death from cemetery records41
Place of burialButtes New British Cemetery (Plot XXIV, Row D, Grave No. 3), Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, Belgium
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
118
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: William Benjamin and Esther Esdaile FORD; husband of Henrietta U. FORD, Elphinstone, Queensland
Other details

War service: Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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