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Robert Lewis Sweet

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Robert Lewis AWMM
  • Surname
    Sweet AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 85972 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Presbyterian, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    30 March 1894 AWMM Tasmania, Australia AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    WW1 Box 58, G.P.O. Wellington AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW1 Mrs J.F. Sweet (mother), P.O. Hotel, Collingwood, Golden Bay AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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  • Medals and Awards

Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 Marine engineer/Civilian AWMM
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    1918 AWMMHospital Diseases , Wounds, WWI AWMM
    Influenza AWMM

Last known rank

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  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Did not embark overseas. Contracted influenza while in camp and was declared medically unfit for service overseas. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    12 August 1983 AWMM
    Napier, Hawkes Bay AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

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