ROBINSON, David Tait
| Service Number: | 33718 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 September 1916, Brisbane, Qld. |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 7th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Brisbane, Qld., 1897 |
| Home Town: | Gympie, Queensland |
| Schooling: | South Brisbane State School, Brisbane Grammar School |
| Occupation: | Clerk Bank of NSW |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 25 September 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Birr Cross Roads Cemetery I F 17 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bank of New South Wales Roll of Honour Book, Brisbane Grammar School Memorial Library WW1 Honour Board 2, South Brisbane Bowling Club Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Sep 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 33718, Field Artillery Brigades, Brisbane, Qld. | |
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| 10 May 1917: | Involvement Gunner, 33718, Field Artillery Brigades, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Marathon embarkation_ship_number: A74 public_note: '' | |
| 10 May 1917: | Embarked Gunner, 33718, Field Artillery Brigades, HMAT Marathon, Sydney | |
| 25 Sep 1917: | Involvement Gunner, 33718, 7th Field Artillery Brigade, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 33718 awm_unit: 7th Australian Field Artillery Brigade awm_rank: Gunner awm_died_date: 1917-09-25 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of John and Isabella ROBINSON, 'Glendall', Prospect Terrace, South Brisbane, Queensland
DAVID TAIT ROBINSON was born at South Brisbane, Queensland, on 23rd November, 1897, the son of Mr. John Robinson and Mrs. Isabella Robinson. He was educated at South Brisbane State School, where, at the age of twelve, he won a scholarship which carried him on to the Brisbane Boys’ Grammar School for three years. He entered the service of the Bank at Brisbane on 12th May, 1913, and in February, 1916, he was transferred to Gympie.
David Tait Robinson enlisted in August, 1916, and arrived in England in July, 1917, when he went into training at Salisbury Camp and passed as a gunner (Class A) whereupon he immediately volunteered for the front. He left England on 13th September, 1917, and went straight into action, as a member of the 25th Battery of the A.F.A., at Polygon Wood, near Ypres, where he was killed at his gun on 25th September, 1917. He died instantly, and was buried near where he fell.
Source - Bank of NSW Roll of Honour
Information has been received by Mr. and Mrs. J. Robinson, Prospect-terrace, South Brisbane, of the death in action on September 25 of their elder son, Gunner David Tait Robinson, who was only 19 years and 10 months old, having enlisted before he was 19 years of age. The late Gunner Robinson left Sydney in May and arrived in England in July.
Letters dated August 20 were received lately, intimating that he was about to take home leave, but there was no further notification until the receipt of the cablegram announcing his death had come to hand, showing that he was in the firing line. The deceased soldier was educated at the South Brisbane State School, where, under the late Mr. Briggs, he gained a scholarship of three years, which was taken out at the Brisbane Grammar School. On leaving that school he entered the service of the Bank of New South Wales, and was afterwards transferred to the Gympie branch.
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