ROBINSON, Alexander
| Service Number: | 3818 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Honeysuckle Creek, Wyndham, New South Wales, 3 July 1892 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Annandale, New South Wales, Australia, 9 February 1973, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 11 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 3818, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Mooltan embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
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| 11 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 3818, 1st Infantry Battalion, RMS Mooltan, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Maree Woods
Alexander Robinson was born of July 3rd, 1892, in Wyndham, New South Wales. He was the second of the six sons of Alexander Robinson and Ann Prosser, who also had three daughters.
Alexander enlisted at Holsworthy on November 16th, 1915, and stated that his occupation was a labourer. He was twenty-three years old.
He embarked from Sydney on December 11th and disembarked in Egypt on February 14th, 1916. Alexander arrived in France and joined his unit in March 1916. On November 5th he received gunshot wounds to his face and arm and was evacuated to England. His left eye could not be saved, and he was returned to Australia on the “Themistocles” on May 4th, 1917.
Alexander continued to be employed as a labourer on his return to Australia. In 1933 he married Selena Bruhn, the daughter of a Danish father and an Australian born mother whose father and grandfather were convicts. Alexander enlisted in the Citizen Military Force during World War 2.
Alexander and Selena had a son, Raymond, and a daughter, Nellie. He died on February 9th, 1973.
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