ROBINSON, James William
| Service Number: | WX15941 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 August 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Grangetown, Sunderland, England, United Kingdom, 4 April 1915 |
| Home Town: | Kalgoorlie, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner and Truck Driver (Tindal's Mine, Coolgardie). |
| Died: | Acute Enteritis, whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Thailand, 28 August 1943, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Burial reference: - Plot 1. Row M. Grave 36. Personal Inscription: - "HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE...STILL LOVED BY US ALL". |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, WX15941 | |
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| 20 Aug 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX15941, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion | |
| 16 Feb 1942: | Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, died of illness. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Dianne Black
Parents:- James' birth mother Ellen, married his father (William Luddington Robinson) in 1913 in Sunderland, Durham, England. James was born in 1915 and Ellen died the same year. James’ father William Luddington Robinson remarried to Elizabeth Carr. William and Elizabeth had a daughter Hilda born in 1917 and two sons John and Joseph before migrating to Western Australia. The Robinson family arrived from London at Fremantle, aboard ‘Largs Bay’ in 1926 from London. James was aged 11 years.
James' father William Robinson died in 1957 at Victoria Park, Western Australia and Elizabeth Robinson his step mother died in 1970.
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