Robert Erickson

Service number: 4642

Rank: Private

Unit: 13th Battalion (Infantry)

Service: Australian Army

Date of death: 13 August 1916

Cause of death: Died of wounds

Cemetery or memorial details: Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension, France

War Grave Register notes: ERICKSON, Pte. Robert, 4642. 13th Bn. Australian Inf. Died of wounds 13th Aug., 1916. VII. B. 49.

Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army

Mr Erickson was born at Manly. He was a bricklayer to trade and had served a four-year apprenticeship with J Reynolds of Manly. He enlisted on 16 August 1915, aged 27 and 9 months. His father William Erickson lived at 46 Pacific Parade, Manly. His mother, Mrs J Curtis, lived at Queenscliff Road, Queenscliff. Pte Erickson arrived at Marseilles on 8 June 1916.

He died of wounds on 13 August 1916. He is commemorated on a headstone in Manly Cemetery plot Z.083.