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Robert Joseph BASSETT

Regimental number16728
Place of birthMelbourne, Victoria
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationClerk
Address6 Webster Street, Seddon, Victoria
Marital statusMarried
Age at embarkation22
Next of kinWife, Mrs Christina Mary Bassett, c/o Mrs Henderson, Chatswood Road, East Prahran, Victoria
Enlistment date2 October 1916
Rank on enlistmentSapper
Unit nameDivisional Signal Company 3, Reinforcement 7
AWM Embarkation Roll number22/13/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT RMS Orontes on 23 December 1916
Rank from Nominal RollSapper
Unit from Nominal Roll4th Divisional Signal Company
FateDied of wounds 26 September 1917
Age at death from cemetery records23
Place of burialHooge Crater Cemetery (Plot III, Row G, Grave No. 11), Zillebeke, Belgium
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
25
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Charles and louisa Osborne BASSETT, husband of C.M. BASSETT, 153 Flemington Road, North Melbourne, Australia. Born at Malvern Victoria
Other details

War service: Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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