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• Name PHILLIPS
• Initials R
• First name ROBERT
• Place of birth Longwarry East
• Country Victoria, Australia
• Family Son of Samuel and Carrie Catherine Phillips, of Drouin, Victoria, Australia

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted in Warragal, Victoria on 12 April 1916
• Service number 27836
• Rank Gunner
• Regiment and unit 1st Brigade Australian Field Artillery
• Army - Corps - Division 1st Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarked at Melbourne on 20 October 1916; to France on 19 September 1917

Death

• Wounded 12 October 1917
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds on buttock and back at n°17 CCS
• Date of death 12 October 1917
• Died at the age of 26
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XX - J - 4A

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