ROBERTSON, Hubert Charles
Service Number: | 968 |
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Enlisted: | 2 September 1914, Melbourne, Victoria |
Last Rank: | Staff Sergeant Major |
Last Unit: | 4th Light Horse Regiment |
Born: | Cardiff, Wales, 27 January 1880 |
Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Drover |
Died: | Natural causes (Pulmonary Fibrosis due to TB), Buncombe, North Carolina, USA, 17 October 1960, aged 80 years |
Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
2 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 968, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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7 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 968, 4th Light Horse Regiment, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Palermo embarkation_ship_number: A56 public_note: '' | |
7 May 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 968, 4th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Palermo, Melbourne | |
5 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Trooper, 968, 4th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
24 Oct 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Trooper, 968, 4th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, GSW (left shoulder and lung) - at Tasmania Post | |
4 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Staff Sergeant Major, 968, 4th Light Horse Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Dave Rees
"...968 Sergeant Hubert Charles Robertson MM, 4th Australian Light Horse Regiment. Sgt Robertson had previously served in the Cape Mounted Riflemen, a South African military unit, during the Boer War. (In the attached image) he is seen wearing the Queens's South African campaign medal. A small badge in the form of the letter "A" on unit colour patch denotes that the wearer had taken part in the 1915 Gallipoli campaign." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)