YOUNGER, Robert Sydney

Robert Younger was by profession, a Chemist.He had been previously apprenticed for four years to P. Lloyd of Warrnambool.  He married Mabel Alice Alston of Ballarat on 5 Apr 1915.  Their daughter, Mabel Elizabeth Mary, was born on 27 June 1915 at Warrnambool, and Mabel Alice died a few days later. After a serious illness and operation, Robert Younger's  medical adviser recommended a complete change and he decided to take up temporary work as a dispenser in Melbourne.

By then a widower, he moved back with his baby daughter to East Melbourne.  His father, James Younger, his  mother, Elizabeth Younger, and his daughter, Mabel Elizabeth Mary Younger.  All were living at 82 Powlett Street at time of enlistment, as was his cousin, Stanley William Younger (later changed to Wilson).  6ft., 140lbs., hazel eyes, light brown hair.  Embarked SS Persic 29 Aug 1917 for Durban, from there by Cornonia for India via Bombay 14 Nov 1917.  Served as Dispenser at Station Hospitals in Ferozepore and Dalhousie.  Returned to Australia from Bombay 15 Jan 1919.  He was living at Conness Street, Chiltern, Vic. in 1924.

He married Myra Hearn on 19 October 1920 at St Andrews Church, Colac, according to a notice in The Age; he was living at Berwick at the time. They had 3 children, moved around Victoria (Chiltern, Kerang) until settling in the Melbourne area in the mid-1930's. His last address, according to Electoral Rolls, was 35 Currajong Road, Hawthorn, and he died in 1961.