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Robert Powell GREEN

Regimental number5105
Place of birthSt Kilda, Victoria
SchoolGrange Preparatory School, and Melbourne Grammar School, Victoria
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationClerk
Address45 Chapel Street, St Kilda, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation21
Next of kinFather, Mr A E Green, 45 Chapel Street, St Kilda, Victoria
Previous military serviceServed in the Grammar School Cadets and in the University Rifles, Citizen Military Forces.
Enlistment date14 February 1916
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name5th Battalion, 16th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/22/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A23 Suffolk on 1 April 1916
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll59th Battalion
FateKilled in Action 23 November 1916
Place of death or woundingGuedecourt, near Bapaume, France
Age at death22
Age at death from cemetery records22
Place of burialBancourt British Cemetery (Plot V, Row B, Grave No. 18), France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
167
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: albert and Jessie GREEN, 45 Chapel Street, St. Kilda, Victoria
Other details

War service: Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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