Hunter, Robert Clive (Lieutenant, b.1892 - d.1916)

Places	Africa: Egypt Europe: France Europe: France, Nord Pas de Calais, Pas de Calais, Bethune, Fleurbaix Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli
Accession Number	1DRL/0367
Collection type	Private Record
Record type	Collection
Measurement	1 folder: 2 cm
Object type	Letter
Maker	Hunter, Robert Clive
Place made	Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made	1929
Access	Open
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room.	AWM93 12/11/1329
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain
Copying Provisions	Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required.

Description

Collection relating to the service of Lieutenant Robert Clive Hunter, 12 Light Horse Regiment and 2 Battalion AIF, Holdsworthy, at sea, Egypt, Gallipoli, France, 1915-1916. Collection consists of typewritten copies of letters from Lieutenant Hunter to his mother and father in NSW. Typescript copies made by Lieutenant Robert Clive Hunter's family. Location of originals unknown.

History / Summary

Biographical note: Lieutenant Robert Clive Hunter, 2 Battalion AIF. Solicitor; of Forbes, NSW; born Wandary Station, Forbes; educated at Cooerwell Academy, Bowenfels, NSW; joined the AIF on 27 April 1915 as a Private; served with the 12th Light Horse Regiment as a Sergeant until the evacuation of Gallipoli, when he transferred to the 2nd Battalion as an officer; killed in action in the Fleurbaix sector, 13 June 1916, aged 24.