ANZAC Heroes | Great War 1914 – 1918

Bunbury – Wellington District Western Australia

CASSIDY, Robert James

CASSIDY, Robert James

Full Name: Robert James

CASSIDY

Date of Birth: 10

–

1892

Place of birth: Violet Town

Australia

Occupation: Sleeper Cutter

Address: Hutton Street Collie WA

Next of Kin: Father-Walter James Cassidy

Next of Kin Address: Hutton Street Collie WA

Religion: Methodist

Service Number: 3426

Rank: Private

Unit/Division: 16th Battalion

Enlistment Date: 1915-07-30

Enlistment Location: Blackboy Hill

WA

Embarkation Port:

Embarkation Date: 1915-11-01

Embarkation Ship:

Disembarkation Port:

Disembarkation Date: 1915-11-24

Locations Served:

,

Returned: No

Discharge Date:

Cause of Death: KIA

Date of Death:

Place of Death: France

Age at Death: 24

Burial Location: Inscription Villers Brettoneux Memorial-No known grave

30/07/1915- Completed Medical Examination Collie WA
5/08/1915-To “C” Company 21st Depot Battalion as Private
23/08/1915-To 1st Depot Battalion
27/09/1915-To 16th Battalion 11th Reinforcements
10/01/1916-Admitted 4th Aux Hospital Abbassia Cairo ( Mumps )
29/01/1916-Discharged to Unit Cairo ex Hospital
21/03/1916-Joined 16th Battalion in the field Tel-el-Kebir Egypt
9/06/1916-Disembarked Marseilles France ex Alexandria
11/08/1916-Wounded in Action France ( Shell Shock )
12/08/1916-Admitted 1st Anzac Rest Station ex 7th Field Ambulance
15/08/1916-Rejoined Unit in the field France ex Wounded
30/08/1916-Wounded in Action France ( Barbed Wire Wounds Legs ) ex 3rd Casualty Clearing Station ex 1st Aust Rest Station
31/08/1916-Admitted 13th General Hospital Boulogne France
17/09/1916-To 4th Aust Division Base Depot Etaples France ex Convalescent Depot ex Hospital
4/10/1916-Rejoined Unit in the field France
5/02/1917-Reported MISSING IN ACTION France
5/02/1917- Reported KILLED IN ACTION France

 

Service Medals Awarded

1914/15 Star – No. 14303

British War Medal – No. 23264

Victory Medal – No. 23095

Memorial Plaque/ Scroll – No. 325164

 

Memorial Inscriptions

Villers-Brettoneux Memorial France

Australian War Memorial Canberra – Panel No. 79

Collie War Memorial, Western Australia

 

Statement re. Soldier’s Death

Informant – 4771. EWENS, Pte. G. E. – 45th Battalion – ” About the 22nd February when in Reserve  I found the bodies of both CASSIDY and NOYCE about 200 yards to the left of  the commencement of Greece Trench.  Both bodies were considerably knocked about by wounds,  and CASSIDY had one of his legs  blown off.  With the help of Pte. TURNER of the 45th Battalion, since wounded, I buried the 2 bodies where I found them taking the personal belongings of each  placing them in the haversack handed in at Etaples. I was wounded shortly afterwards  and sent to No. 1 General Hospital Rouen where I took the haversack  with me.  A Medical Officer at the Hospital  advised me to take the haversack  with me to Etaples and  to hand it in there  which I did on  18 April 1917 “.