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Robert Bryant

Service Number: 28
Rank: Private
Age: 19
Religion: C of E
Marriage status: Single
Calling/trade: Bread carter
Address: Elm-grove
Windsor Victoria Australia
Date joined: 17/08/14
*A.M.F. Unit: 49th Infantry
Regiment: 5th Infantry Battalion

Embarkation

Date: 21/10/14
From: Melbourne
On number: A3
Name: Orvieto
Nominal Roll No: 23/22/1
Division A Company

Next of Kin

Name: Mrs Elsie Baker
Relationship: Mother
Address: 3 Elm grove
Windsor Victoria Australia

Payment

Before Embarkation
Rate per Diem Date to which paid
S D S D
5 0 20/10/14
After Embarkation
Daily rate, excluding Deferred pay Allotment in Australia per Diem Not Rate, not including Allowances or Deferred pay
S D S D S D
5 0 3 0 2 0
Daily Rate of Deferred Pay, only Inssuable on Completion of Service with Expeditionary Force
S D
1 0

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WWI Stories – Robert Bryant

Robin Lee tells the story of her grandfather Robert Bryant and describes how war has touched so many in her family. War was no stranger to the family – before World War One, my great-grandfather was a member of the Suffolk Regiment and saw service in the Boer War, Burma and Egypt as a mounted [...]