William Joseph (Buller) ROBINSON

ROBINSON, William Joseph

    Service Number: WX5200
    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
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    World War 2 Service

    3 Sep 1939: Involvement WX5200
    26 Jul 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army 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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    Biography 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.

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