ALLISON, Robert Knox
| Service Number: | 3028 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 15th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Paisley, Scotland, 1888 |
| Home Town: | Roebourne, Roebourne, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Shipwright |
| Died: | Hollywood Hospital, Western Australia, 15 November 1950, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Collie General Cemetery, Western Australia Presbyterian Section |
| Memorials: | Fremantle Scots Church Honour Roll, Roebourne War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3028, 28th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 18 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 3028, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 3028, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Fremantle | |
| 27 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 3028, 15th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Helen Harmer
Robert was born near the town of Paisley in the county of Renfrewshire, Scotland. He had served a five-year apprenticeship with Bow McLechain Company in Paisley and his mother, Mrs Jean Knox Allison still lived in the town. He enlisted, aged 27 years 5 months. He signed his enlistment paper on 25th August 1915 at Roebourne WA with the postal address of Cossack. Robert was described as being 5 feet 4 inches tall with a chest measurement of 38 inches. He had a fresh complexion, brown eyes, dark hair and the tattoo of a heart on his left forearm. Robert was a shipwright of Presbyterian denomination. He took the oath of allegiance on 10.9.1915 and it was certified at Blackboy Hill on the 1 November. He was allocated service number 3028. Initially at the 28 Depot Company, he was transferred to the 70th Battalion, then the 15th on the 7.3.1916. He embarked on the 18.1.1916 on the HMAT Medic A7 at Fremantle. Robert was wounded in action in France on 9.8.1916 and suffered shell shock. He was again wounded in action on the 28.9.1916. Evacuated to the 1st Eastern General Hospital in Cambridge, he was treated for a compound fracture of his right arm. He went absent without leave from 14.3.1917 to 26.3.1917 and was awarded 7 days’ punishment and lost 19 days’ pay. On the 19.4.1917 he was transferred to the 70th Battalion and appointed Lance Corporal from the 30.6.1917. On the 19.9.1917, he was transferred to the 15th Battalion and proceeded to France on the 25th. On the 18.2.18, he was admitted to hospital in France, then on the 11.3.18 to the Royal Herbert Hospital in Woolwich with Trench Fever and gastroenteritis. He returned to France on 24.10.1918 and rejoined his unit on the 21.11.1918. He left England to return to Australia on the 28.2.1919, disembarking at Albany on 7.4.1919 and was discharged on the 27.9.1919.
In 1931, a newspaper article paid tribute to his late wife, Elizabeth. She had served in war hospitals in France, Egypt, Salonika and Italy. On her return home, she worked at the soldiers’ block at the Wooroloo Sanitorium. In 1922, she returned to Collie to work at its hospital. She was 42 years old when she died after a long illness. They had a 5 ½ year-old daughter, Jean.
Robert married Margaret Ann. In 1950, Robert was described as an incapacitated World War 1 veteran from Collie, currently in Hollywood Hospital, in poor health as a result of war service. He died on November 15, 1950, aged 62 and was buried in the Presbyterian section of Collie Cemetery.
NAA WW1 War Service Records barcode 3032180
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