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Robert McTaggart

Name on Board R McTaggart
Name on Service
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Robert  McTaggart
Enlistment Age 19
Occupation Labourer, T Robinsons and Co, Implement Works, Spotswood
Place of Birth Williamstown, Vic
Next of Kin Robert and Alice McTaggart
Address 19 John St, North Williamstown, Vic
Marital Status S
Enlistment Date 26/06/1917
Service No. 7540
Enlistment Place Melbourne, Vic
Embarkation Place Melbourne
Embarkation Date 4/08/1917
Embarkation Ship HMAT Thermistocles A32
Unit on Embarkation 6th Australian Infantry Battalion
Date of Death 24/04/1918
Unit on Death 6th Australian Infantry Battalion
Rank on Death Private
Cause of Death KIA
Place of Wounding/
Death
France. Initially buried near the railway station, Strazaele, France (exhumed and reinterred)
Cemetery or Memorial Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension, Bailleul, Nord Pas de Calais, France
Additional Information Robert McTaggart attended North School and associated with Williamstown Football Club.
Additional References Williamstown Chronicle, Saturday 25 September 1915, p3
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