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Hammerberg, Robert Maurice Stewart (2604)

Place of Birth: Port Melbourne, VIC

Age: 30 years 9 Months

Enlistment Details: Wednesday, 19 May 1915 – Melbourne, VIC

Service Number: 2604            view online service record

Next of Kin:
Annie Hammerberg (wife)
‘Coleford’, Glebe Avenue
Cheltenham, VIC

Embarkation Details:
Date: Wednesday, 15 September 1915
Ship: SS Makarini
Port: Melbourne, VIC
Unit: 14th Infantry Battalion – 8th Reinforcements

Fate:
KIA: Wednesday, 11 April 1917
Place: France


Robert Maurice Hammerberg. AWM DASEY1188.
Robert Maurice Hammerberg. AWM DASEY1187.

Cousin: Raymond S Hammerberg

Private, 14 Infantry, killed in action 11 April, 1917, France, age 32, commemorated Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.

Father: Charles, Wife: Mrs Annie HAMMERBERG, born Port Melbourne, educated Albert Park SS, 59 Graham Street. Enlisted with his address shown as Cheltenham, but with his wife at 36 Ingles Street, Port Melbourne, his occupation given as submarine linesman with the PMG. Married brother, 61403, John William HAMMERBERG, born Albert Park, enlisted from North Fitzroy, the pair shown on the Albert Park school roll as HAMMERBURG.

Additional research by Brian Membrey

1 Comments

  • Brian Membrey
    Posted October 18, 2016 2.49 pm 0Likes

    “Hammerberg was a mate of mine and came from Williamstown, Australia. He came over with the 6th Reinforcements and was in B Coy. I made enquiries about him when he was reported missing, and heard from some men, whose names I cannot remember, that he was working at some tunnelling on 11th April near Flers when he was killed by a shell” (Cpl. C. E. Pallett, 634)

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