De Jersey Norman ROBILLIARD

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ROBILLIARD, De Jersey Norman

Service Number:	6029
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Driver
Last Unit:	5th Field Company Engineers
Born:	Timboon, Victoria, Australia, 1890
Home Town:	Timboon, Corangamite, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia., September 1973, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Warrnambool Public Cemetery, Victoria Wesleyan Sec. Row 20, grave 017.
Memorials:	Timboon District Memorial WWI Honour Roll, Timboon Honor Roll

World War 1 Service

20 Jan 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Driver, 6029, 5th Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: ''
20 Jan 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 6029, 5th Field Company Engineers, HMAT Runic, Sydney

The Robilliard brothers.

Norman and his brother Bert, were able to catch up at the front, just before Bert was killed in action. Norman went out to no man’s land to retrieve his brother’s body. He wrote a heart wrenching letter to his mother, telling of his brother’s death.

Submitted 28 March 2021 by Ellen Magill

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Biography contributed by Robert Kearney

Name: De Jersey Norman Robilliard
Birth Registration Date: 1890
Birth Registration Place: Victoria, Australia
Father: Jas Arthur Robilliard
Mother Maiden Name: Beckett
Reference Number: 1014

Biography contributed by Ellen Magill

Norman's heroic retrieval and exhumation of his brother, Bert's body after his death in battle and his penning of a heart- rending letter to his mother to tell about the sad event showed his strength and determination.
Ref.The Beckett's of Brucknell.

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