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From How We Served

The final resting place for; - V1677 Captain Thomas Norman Victor Robinson of Staffordshire, England and East Brighton, Victoria, had been a veteran of the Royal Flying Corps. Serving with 22nd Squadron during the ‘Great War’, flying sorties over the trenches of Northern France and Flanders.

By the end of the First World War, Thomas’s Squadron would make up part of the British Army of Occupation based in the vicinity of Cologne, Germany, before he received his final discharge from the RFC.
Following his official discharge, Thomas would immigrate to Australia during the years of peace that followed, and by the outbreak of World War Two, Thomas, was married and employed as a sales manager before he decided to re-enlist for War Service with his newly adopted country’s Military Forces.

Thomas enlisted for World War Two on the 22nd of July 1940 and was accepted for fulltime duties within Australia. Initially posted to Advanced Headquarters 3rd Military District, Thomas received his Commission as a Lieutenant on the 18th of September 1941.

Serving continuously, Thomas was again promoted, and was made a Captain on the 8th of July 1942, whilst serving with Land Headquarters Australian Army Ordnance Corps. With this Unit Tnomas would remain, until he was again transferred, and taken on strength with the Australian Army Ordnance Corps Stores Land Headquarters on the 30th of April 1942.

From this period onwards, Thomas would serve continuously until he was evacuated due to sickness, and admitted into the Alfred Hospital, Victoria, on the 27th of April 1944.

Further medical care would see Thomas discharged from the Alfred Hospital, following which he was admitted into the 115th Australian General Hospital (Heidelberg).

Whilst still being hospitalized, Thomas succumbed to disease on the 27th of December 1944, at the premature age of 48.

Following his passing, Captain Thomas Robinson, a British Royal Flying Corps veteran of the ‘Great War’, and who had again re-enlisted to serve Australia during a Second World War, was formally laid to rest within Springvale War Cemetery, Victoria.