ROBERTSON, Raymond Wallace
| Service Number: | 1751 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 21 May 1915, Liverpool, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 18th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia, 5 September 1896 |
| Home Town: | Bathurst, Bathurst Regional, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Bathurst North State School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Railway clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 31 August 1918, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bathurst High School Roll of Honour WW1, Bathurst High School Roll of Honour WW2, Bathurst Public School Roll of Honour, Bathurst War Memorial Carillon, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 21 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1751, Liverpool, New South Wales | |
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| 19 Jun 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1751, 18th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Kanowna embarkation_ship_number: A61 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Jun 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1751, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kanowna, Sydney | |
| 16 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1751, 18th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 22 Aug 1915: | Wounded Private, 1751, 18th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, GSW (thigh) | |
| 30 Jul 1916: | Wounded Private, 1751, 18th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , 2nd occasion - GSW (left shoulder) | |
| 20 May 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 18th Infantry Battalion | |
| 31 Aug 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1751, 18th Infantry Battalion, Mont St Quentin / Peronne, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1751 awm_unit: 18 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-08-31 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Raymond Wallace ROBERTSON, (Service Number 1751) joined the NSW Government Railways as a junior clerk at Bathurst locomotive depot in January 1914. In May 1915, aged 18 years and 8 months, he enlisted in the AIF.
He was wounded by gunshot in the thigh at Gallipoli and evacuated to hospital. He returned to duty in Egypt in 1916. He was wounded again by gunshot in the shoulder in France in July 1916, recovered from this in England and re-joined his unit in France in September 1917. He spent part of January 1918 sick in hospital in Belgium but again re-joined his unit at the end of that month and was promoted to Lance Corporal in May.
On 31st August 1918 he was killed in action and buried ‘on the Western slope of Mont St Quentin close to the Albert – Ham Railway’. In 1919 his remains were exhumed and re-interred in Péronne Communal Cemetery Extension.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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