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Surname: MAUDSLEY
Forename(s): Robert Thomas
Place of Birth: Grindleton, Yorkshire
Service No: 137
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Australian Infantry
Battalion / Unit: 'A' Coy 32nd Battalion
Division: 5th Australian Division
Age: 27
Date of Death: 1916-07-19
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: II. C. 4.
CWGC Cemetery: FROMELLES (PHEASANT WOOD) MILITARY CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: GRINDLETON, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Robert Thomas Maudsley was the son of John and Mary Maudsley, née Scott. John was born at West Bradford, Yorkshire and Mary at Clitheroe, Lancashire. Robert was the cousin of Private Joseph Bell (2592) (q.v.).
1891 Grindleton, Yorkshire Census: Cottage - Robert Thomas Maudsley, aged 1 year, born West Bradford, Yorkshire, son of John and Mary Maudsley.
1901 Grindleton, Yorkshire Census: Back Lane - Robert T. Maudsley, aged 11 years, born Grindleton, son of John and Mary Maudsley.
1911 Grindleton, Yorkshire Census: Back Lane - Robert Thomas Maudsley, aged 21 years, born Grindleton, son of John and Mary Maudsley.
In 2016 the Australian Army confirmed the identification of a further six Australians from the 250 Australian and British Great War soldiers recovered from a mass burial site at Pheasant Wood, France in 2009. Pte Robert Thomas Maudsley, whose name was previously commemorated on the V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery Memorial, Fromelles, was one of these.
The image of the cap badge also shows the colour patch of the battalion.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) exist for Robert. (Case transferred to Australian H.Q.).
Photograph kindly supplied by Shirley Penman, Clitheroe.
Australian service records: www.naa.gov.au › The collection › Popular research topics › Defence › Service records
Data Source: Local War Memorial
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Private Robert Thomas MAUDSLEY
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Australian Infantry
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 5th Australian Division
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St Ambrose's Churchyard, Grindleton
Family gravestone
St Ambrose's Churchyard, Grindleton
Family gravestone - detail of memorial inscription
Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery
New CWGC headstones await rededication
Kindly supplied by Shirley Penman, Clitheroe
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Yesterday Robert Maudsley’s name was announced by the minister as being identified in the mass grave at Fromelles.
So he will have a military ceremony at the 100th anniversary on 19 July and new gravestone revealed.
Marg O’Leary
Fromelles Association.