GILLIES  R.M.

Given Names:  Robert Murray

               

Service Number: 

Unit:  Dental Details                                                                                                        

Rank:  Lieutenant                                                                                                            

Paybook Number:  901065

 

Age:  21 Yrs   

Occupation:  Surgeon Dentist                                                                                         

Marital Status:  Single

Religion:  Presbyterian

 

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION           

Height:  5 Ft  11 In                   

Weight:  143 Lbs

Chest:  36 In

Hair: 

Eyes: 

Complexion: 

 

ENLISTMENT

Date Enlisted:  15/8/1918

Place: 

Next of Kin:  FATHER  George Forster Gillies

11 Barrington Avenue, Kew, Victoria                                                                                 

Embarkation Date:  4/9/1918

Port:  Sydney  

Ship:  HMAT Bakara A41

 

END OF WAR 

Status:  Returned to Australia

Ship:  Saxon    

Embarked:  4/1/1919                                 

Disembarked: 

Unit:  Australian Army Medical Corps                                                                                             

Rank:  Lieutenant

Discharge Date:  3/4/1919                         

Place: 

 

MEDALS AND AWARDS

14/15 Star:  Not earned

British War Medal:  75776

Victory Medal:  Not earned

Other:   

 

BIRTH

Date or Year:  30/7/1897

Place:  Yarrawonga, Victoria                    

Father:  George Forster GILLIES              

Mother:  Lucy HILL

 

MARRIAGE

Year:  1923     

Place:             

Spouse: Jean Laurie LEES

 

DEATH

Date or Year: 12/1/1989                          

Place: ,           

Burial:  Springvale, Victoria

 

SERVICE RECORD HIGHLIGHTS

* Previously disembarked at Sierra Leone, sick

 

MEMORIALS

Kew War Memorial

University of Melbourne

Presbyterian Church Kew

 

WORLD WAR 2 SERVICE

Service Number:                                                    

Date Enlisted:                                                        

Date Discharged: 

 

COMMENTS

FURTHER INFORMATION

 

Kew Rotary