Participant Info

Surname

Geelan

First Name

Robert

Initial

M

Service Number

2644

Rank

corporal

Unit Served

18th Battalion

Service Record

Egypt, France

Enlistment Date

1915

Enlistment Month

July 31

Embarkation Year

1915

Embarkation Month

November 2

Date of Death

1917

Month of Death

September 20

Death Category

KIA

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 55, image page 54

Also Known As

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

Frank and Mary Geelan

Parental Address

Lyal Street, Leichhardt

Parental City

Sydney

Parental State

NSW

Notes

born at Araluen, November 1, 1886, educated Leichhardt Public School, clerk, embarked June 1915.War service: Egypt, France (wounded Pozieres, July 1916.)Corporal R. M. Geelan made the supreme sacrifice at Passchendaele, September, 1917.(His enlistment and