Robert John Edwin Randell

Service number: 3234

Rank: Corporal

Unit: 20th Battalion then 56th Battalion

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Robert Randell was born at Manly in 1893 and was a clerk. He enlisted on 9 August 1915, giving as next of kin his mother Edith living at Sydney Road, Manly.

He embarked on 23 December 1915. He served with the 56th Battalion in France. He was hospitalised on 1 November 1916 with shellshock, and in December with influenza. On 14 September 1917 he was promoted to Lance-Corporal. He was wounded in the shoulder on 26 September 1917. He was promoted to Corporal prior to being returned to Australia on the Beltana on 2 June 1919.

One of his descendants was Sea Eagle Terry Randell.