Lasker, Robert Sydney

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Med. I l l : Lieutenant, R.F.C., B.E.F., France; also A.A.M.C., A.I.F., England. Enlisting 16th August, 1915, in A.A.M.C. and sailing with 16th Reinforcements No. 2 Australian General Hospital, joined No. 2 Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Southall, 10th January, 1917. Discharged 23rd March to complete medical studies but joined R.F.C. as second-lieutenant 12th August and served till death.Killed in Action by enemy anti-aircraft gun fire, France, 20th May, 1918, and buried in Auloyne Communal Cemetery. Early education at Newcastle High School. If I should fall, my presence may be sought In all the teeming beauty of the earth, With every lovely thing that God hath wrought I shall be one, and find in it new birth. He loved all these

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Early education at Newcastle High School, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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Tertiary education at University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
1915

Enlisted 16 Aug 1915
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Military service as Lieutenant at France --, France ; Wingate, England --, United Kingdom
1918

Death in France --, France 20 May 1918

Gender

Male

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