
ROBINSON, William Joseph
| Service Number: | WX5200 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Victoria Park, Western Australia, 22 April 1918 |
| Home Town: | Queens Park, Canning, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Dysentery whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Thailand, 17 July 1943, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Burial reference: - Plot 1. Row Q. Collective Graves 2-78. Personal Inscription: - "TILL WE MEET AGAIN "BULLER". |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement WX5200 | |
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| 26 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Sergeant, WX5200, 2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion | |
| 7 Mar 1942: | Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Died from illness at Hintok Road Camp, Thailand. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Dianne Black
Parents: - Charles Stewart Robinson and Henrietta Bradley were married, 1914 in Perth, Western Australia. They produced a family of four sons and one daughter. William Joseph was their third son. Henrietta Robinson died on 30th December 1946, in Perth Western Australia, following a long illness. Charles Robinson died in 1971 at Mandurah, Western Australia is buried in Karrakatta Cemetery.
William Joseph “Buller” Robinson never married.