113 Corporal (Cpl) Robert Willie Nenke, a despatch rider of 1st Divisional Signal Company (1DSC), ...

Accession Number	P07670.001
Collection type	Photograph
Object type	Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker	Unknown
Place made	France
Date made	c 1917
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain

Description

113 Corporal (Cpl) Robert Willie Nenke, a despatch rider of 1st Divisional Signal Company (1DSC), attached to 2nd Brigade Field Artillery, sitting on his motor cycle. Robert Nenke, an ironmonger from Nuriootpa in SA, joined the AIF on 18 August 1914 and sailed from Melbourne on board HMAT Karroo on 20 October 1914. After serving on Gallipoli, his unit embarked at Alexandria for France, and arrived at Marseilles on 23 March 1916. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 March 1916. On 26 September 1916 he was injured and admitted to 2nd Field Ambulance and eventually repatriated to England. After he was discharged from hospital he was transferred to the Signal School at Shefford and eventaully re-joined his unit in France on 7 July 1917. Shortly after re-joining his unit he was wounded in action on 28 August 1917 and repatriated to England and treated at the Canadian Red Cross Hospital at Taplow. After he recovered from his wounds Cpl Nenke arrived back in France and re-joined his unit on 18 May 1918. On 10 August 1918 Cpl Nenke was again wounded in action and died of his wounds that day.