46th Battalion
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Robert James Clark (SN 2640) born at Stawell, was a 22 year old labourer when he enlisted in Melbourne on July 7th 1915. He embarked aboard the Port Lincoln on October 20th 1916 and sailed to England. In March 1917 he joined the 46th Battalion in France. In July 1918 he was wounded when he suffered a gunshot wound to his left hand. He was evacuated to hospital in England before he was returned to Australia aboard the Suevic which reached Melbourne on January 5th 1919. He was discharged on February 16th ‘medically unfit, injury wrist’.
