AUSTIN Robert George 2/Lt

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AUSTIN Robert George 2/Lt

2000-2024

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Surname: AUSTIN;

Forename(s): Robert George;

Initials: RG;

Rank: 2/Lt;

Born in: Shoreham by Sea;

Enlistment Date: 11-Oct-1915;

Resided in: Brighton;

Previous Number: 7981;

Previous Battalion: 10 of;

Previous Regiment: R Sussex Regt;

Date of transfer to MGC: 01-Jan-1916;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 257 Coy;

Date abroad: 10-Mar-1916;

Theatre of War: 1;

How killed: KIA;

Where: Iraq;

When killed: 26-Oct-1918;

Other Data: :born 22/12/1895 Shoreham. Educated Municipal Secondary Sch Eastbouenr and Brighton. Student of Music.
Enlisted 11/10/1915 10 Sussex Regt (7981 Private), transferred MGC (L/Cpl 7007) on 1/1/1916. To BEF with 90 Coy 10/3/1916, disch to Commsn 25/5/1917. Served Home 11/10/1915 - 9/3/1916, BEF 10/3/1916 - 19/6/1916, Home 20/06/1916 - 25/5/1917.
Casualty Form (OR) 20/5/1916 App L/Cpl, 24/6/1916 90 Coy - to Hosp (Impetigo). 3/7/1916 1 Austr Gen Hosp, Roen, to UK.
Joined 257 Coy 2/3/1918 - war diary
NOK: Robert John Austin (father) 2 Chatsworth Rd, Brighton, Superintendant, Brighton Dist Railways
Medals offered DNW Jan '22:
Pair: Second Lieutenant R. G. Austin, Machine Gun Corps, late Royal Sussex Regiment, who was killed in action in Mesopotamia on 26 October 1918

British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. R. G. Austin.) nearly extremely fine (2) £70-£90
Robert George Austin attested for the Royal Sussex Regiment at Brighton on 11 October 1915 and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 11 March 1916. Transferring to the Machine Gun Corps, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant on 25 May 1917, and subsequently served with the 257th Company in Mesopotamia. He was killed in action on 26 October 1918; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.

Sold with copied research.;

Other Notes: AUSTIN, Second Lieutenant, ROBERT GEORGE, 257th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Inf). 26th October 1918. Age 23. Son of Robert John and Harriett Austin, of 2, Chatsworth Rd., Brighton. Panel 41. Basra Memorial, Iraq.;

Related National Archives files: WO339/78552;

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