ROBINSON, Thomas Gifford
| Service Number: | 2679 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 45th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | West Hartepool, Durham, England, 13 June 1892 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tram Conductor |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 6 August 1916, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Aug 1915: | Involvement Private, 2679, 13th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
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| 9 Aug 1915: | Embarked Private, 2679, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Runic, Sydney | |
| 6 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 2679, 45th Infantry Battalion , Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2679 awm_unit: 45 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-08-06 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Thomas Gifford ROBINSON (Service Number 2679) was born on 13th June 1892 at West Hartepool, Durham, England. He was a casual tram conductor in Sydney from 31st January 1914. He was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces on 24th June 1915.
Robinson had already enlisted at Liverpool by that date . He was just 23-years-old, and unmarried, so he gave his father, Captain John Robinson, then living at ‘Lochside’, Weisdale, in the Shetland Islands as his next of kin. He was allotted to the 8th Reinforcements to the 13th Battalion and embarked HMAT ‘Runic’ at Sydney on 9th August 1915. By 23rd October he had joined the Battalion at Mudros on the Greek island of Lemnos, which was the advanced base for the Gallipoli campaign. He was hospitalised on Gallipoli with diarrhoea on 14th November and evacuated to Mudros. He had recovered sufficiently to re-join the Battalion on 20th December, but by then all the battalions had been evacuated to Mudros and with them Robinson disembarked at Alexandria on 3rd January 1916.
In March he was transferred to the 45th Battalion and in June proceeded to join the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front in France, embarking at Alexandria on 2nd June and reaching Marseilles on 8th June 1916.
He was killed in action in France on 6th August 1916. He has no known grave. He is remembered on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.
His mother, living in the Shetland Islands did apply for a pension, but the application was withdrawn.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Thomas Gifford ROBINSON (Service Number 2679) was born on 13th June 1892 at West Hartepool, Durham, England. He was a casual tram conductor in Sydney from 31st January 1914. He was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces on 24th June 1915.
Robinson had already enlisted at Liverpool by that date . He was just 23-years-old, and unmarried, so he gave his father, Captain John Robinson, then living at ‘Lochside’, Weisdale, in the Shetland Islands as his next of kin. He was allotted to the 8th Reinforcements to the 13th Battalion and embarked HMAT ‘Runic’ at Sydney on 9th August 1915. By 23rd October he had joined the Battalion at Mudros on the Greek island of Lemnos, which was the advanced base for the Gallipoli campaign. He was hospitalised on Gallipoli with diarrhoea on 14th November and evacuated to Mudros. He had recovered sufficiently to re-join the Battalion on 20th December, but by then all the battalions had been evacuated to Mudros and with them Robinson disembarked at Alexandria on 3rd January 1916.
In March he was transferred to the 45th Battalion and in June proceeded to join the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front in France, embarking at Alexandria on 2nd June and reaching Marseilles on 8th June 1916.
He was killed in action in France on 6th August 1916. He has no known grave. He is remembered on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.
His mother, living in the Shetland Islands did apply for a pension, but the application was withdrawn.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.