ROBERTSON, Hume
| 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: | Melbourne, Vic., 6 June 1860 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Presbyterian Minister |
| Died: | East Melbourne, Vic., 8 December 1921, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Geelong College WW1 Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 27 May 1916: | Involvement Australian Army Chaplains' Department, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
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| 27 May 1916: | Embarked Australian Army Chaplains' Department, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
Rev. Hume Robertson,
After serving the church over thirty years in Victoria, went as captain to the Great War, where was seriously wounded and never fully recovered, and he died in 1921.
Table Talk Thursday 26 June 1924 page 41
The death occurred in a private hospital in East Melbourne on Thursday of the Rev. Hume Robertson, who made the presentation in Horsham Town Hall of framed illuminated addresses to the young men of the Presbyterian Church who went from here to do their bit in the European war. The Rev. gentleman had been a chaplain, and was severely wounded, being in hospital for five months.
The Horsham Times Tuesday 13 December 1921 page 5