Robert James Bradshaw

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First Name:

Robert

Middle Name:

James

Last Name:

Bradshaw

Mother's Name:

Mary Jane Bradshaw nee Bedford

Father's Name:

James Bradshaw

Date Enlisted:

Tuesday, October 31, 1916

Rank at Enlistment:

Private

Rank at Discharge:

Private

Unit:

18th Battalion

Company:

Service:

Infantry

Awards:

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Date of Death:

Saturday, October 5, 1918

Place of Death:

France

Cause of Death:

Wounds incurred in action

Details:

Robert Bradshaw (Service No 6284) was born in Sydney in 1895.

At enlistment Robert was single, 21 years old, worked as a horse driver and lived at the Otford Railway Camp. He embarked from Sydney on HMAT A29 Suevic with 18th Battalion, 19th Reinforcement on 11th November 1916.

He was admitted to hospital in Capetown, South Africa suffering from measles, and finally arrived in England on 18th February 1917.

He joined 18th Battalion, D Company in France on 9th May 1917. While fighting in the Passchendaele area Robert was wounded on 9th October 1917 and evacuated to hospital for treatment of gun shot wounds to his thigh, legs, face and abdomen. He returned to his unit on 7th February 1918.

Robert was wounded a second time on 23rd July 1918 when he was gassed; he returned to his unit on 6th September 1918.

Robert was wounded a third time on 3rd October 1918 in another gas attack and admitted to a casualty clearing station. He died of gas poisoning on 5th October and is buried in Tincourt New British Cemetery, France: Plot VI, Row F, Grave 32.

Sources:

NAA: B2455, BRADSHAW R J