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Payne, Robert, Private, 2420, 3rd Battalion, Australian Infantry Born Glasgow, Lanarkshire Enlisted Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia Died of wounds 18th August 1915 aged 21 Son of George and Helen Payne, of 77, Howe St., Derby, England. Buried in Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta, A, VII, 5

1911 Census A light leather dresser's labourer Son of George, a skinner, and Helen Payne, of 40, Howe Street, Derby

Australian Army Service records information: Robert Payne enlisted on the 29th October 1914 at Liverpool in New South Wales. He was employed as a sheep skin flesher, and gave his next of kin as his father, George Payne, of 77, Howe Street, Derby. Five feet ten inches tall, he weighed 11 stone, had a dark complexion, brown eyes and black hair, and he belonged to the Church of England.


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