ANDERSON Robert

Robert Anderson was a blacksmith striker living in Cooroy with his wife, May, and their 11 month-old baby when he enlisted for the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in February 1918. The enlistment record included a typed, signed note from the Enlisting Officer in Brisbane that Robert’s ‘father was a white man and his mother an aboriginal. He has lived all his life with white people.’

One month later Robert was medically discharged with a systolic murmur. It was recorded that he had ‘been horse breaking and blacksmithing and probably overstrained his heart at either of these occupations’.

Shire of Noosa Roll of Honor, Shire Council Chambers, Pelican Street, Tewantin

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