ROBERTSON, Theodore Gordon
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Chaplains' Department |
| Born: | Auckland, New Zealand, 1884 |
| Home Town: | Ipswich, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Congregational Clergyman |
| Memorials: | Ipswich Central Congregational Church Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Dec 1914: | Involvement Australian Army Chaplains' Department, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
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| 23 Dec 1914: | Embarked Australian Army Chaplains' Department, HMAT Berrima, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
The Rev. Theodore Gordon Robertson, B.A., chairman-elect of the Congregational Union of New South Wales for 1925-26, has been one of the outstanding figures in the life of the Congregational Church in this State for some years.
He is the son of the late Rev. Joseph Robertson, M.A., who at different periods filled the office of chairman of the Congregational Unions of New Zealand, South Australia, and Queensland, and who, from 1886 until 1890, was pastor of the Petersham Congregational Church.
REV. T. GORDON ROBERTSON, B.A.
The Rev. T. G. Robertson was born at the Beresford-street Congregational parsonage, Auckland, In 1884 and was educated at Prince Alfred College, Adelaide. Mr. Robertson pursued a varied career for the six years following his college life in Adelaide. He experienced the hard life of an out-back sheep station, for example. He was also one of the staff of the Citizens' Life Assurance Company, and for a period he was associated also with the teaching professlon. It was at the age of 22 that he entered the Adelaide University, subsequently transferring to the University of Sydney, and to Camden College, the training college for Congregational ministers. Graduating In Sydney In 1910 with flrst-class honours in philosophy, he proceeded to Mansfield (the Congregational College at Oxfoid), where ho remained for three years. At Mansfield he gained thd Nathan Whitley travelling scholarship, which enabled him to visit Italy and Palestine.
It was not until 1913 that Mr. Robertson began hls career In the Congregational ministry, as co-pastor with the Rev. Walter Mathison, B.A.. at Croydon and Epping. In December 1914, Mr. Robertson left for the front us the first Congregational chaplain from Australia, and for I8 months he remained with the 6th Light Horse in Egypt and in Gallipoli, while in 1917-18 he was resident chaplain In charge of the Baptist and Congregational hut at Liverpool camp. In 1920 Mr. Robertson became locum tenons for the Rev. F. V. Dowling at North Sydney, where he Is still in charge of the Congregational Church. For the last two and a half years Mr. Robertson has boon senior chaplain of the United Board of Chaplains (Congregational, Baptist, and Church of Christ), and fur the last five years he has acted as hon. secretary of Camden College.
In 1918 Mr. Robertson married Miss Wheeler, daughter of the late Mr. John Wheeler, at one time a member of Parliament, and manager of the Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Company.
The Sydney Morning Herald Friday 24 October 1924 page 8
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