ROBINSON, Vivian Albert
| Service Number: | 7302 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 October 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 11th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Roebourne, Western Australia, 9 November 1888 |
| Home Town: | Pilbara, Port Hedland, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Station Manager |
| Died: | Burekup, Western Australia, 16 July 1959, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Bunbury General Cemetery, Bunbury, Western Australia |
| Memorials: | Port Hedland Pilbarra Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7302, 11th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 29 Jan 1917: | Involvement Private, 7302, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Miltiades embarkation_ship_number: A28 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Jan 1917: | Embarked Private, 7302, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Miltiades, Fremantle | |
| 20 Jun 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 7302, 11th Infantry Battalion, France: Fractured Skull, GSW chest | |
| 9 Dec 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 7302, 11th Infantry Battalion, embarked England for Fremantle per HT Argyllshire | |
| 23 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 7302, 11th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Vivian Albert Robinson (Service No:7302) enlisted in the AIF on 24 October 1916 and was attached to 11th Infantry Battalion on 29 January 1917 when he embarked from Fremantle for Devonport on board HMAT A28 Militades. Private Robinson served in France with 11th Infantry Battalion, completing a ten day Specialist Course in Bombing in 1917. On 20 June 1918 Private Robinson wa WiA in France - evacuated to England with a fractured skull and GSW to his chest. He embarked from England for Fremantle on 9 December 1918 on board HT Argyllshire, and was attached to 11th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 23 June 1919.
Born in 1888 in Roebourne WA, Vivian was the third of eight children of William (Billy) Edward Robinson (b1858 in Brookton, WA) and Mary Frances Parker (b1861 in York, WA). Billy (a Pastoralist) and Mary married in Dangin WA in 1884. In 1873, at the age of seventeen years, Billy had accompanied his two Uncles from Brookton to Roebourne, driving 3,000 sheep. Billy developed Mt Florence Station in the Pilbara - where he and Mary settled - until the drought in 1891 - and in 1897 the family family moved south and took up land at Pingelly. Billy was a Farmer in Brookton. Mary died in 1925 and Billy in 1950.
Vivian spent his early years on Mt Florence Station via Roebourne, and by 1912 was a Pastoralist on Boodarrie Station in the Pilbara. Following his service in WWI, Vivian was Station Manager at Coongan Staion in the Pilbara. In 1921 in Rose Park in South Autralia, Vivian married Emily Joyce (aka Joyce) Murray (b1894 in Snowtown, South Australia). Vivian and Joyce settled at Coongan Station in the Pilbara where they raised their family and Vivian was Station Manager/Pastoralist. By the 1940s Vivian and Joyce had moved to Burekup, where Vivian was a Pastoralist. Vivian died in 1959 and Joyce in 1982.
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