Robert Patrick Norton ROBERTSON

ROBERTSON, Robert Patrick Norton

    Service Number: 1344
    Enlisted: 30 January 1901, The son of LTCOL Robert Robertson from Portsea.
    Last Rank: Corporal
    Last Unit: 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles
    Born: Portsea, Victoria, Australia, 17 March 1872
    Home Town: Winton, Winton, Queensland
    Schooling: Melbourne Grammar School, Victoria, Australia
    Occupation: Station Overseer
    Died: Killed in Action, Middle Kraal, South Africa, 29 May 1901, aged 29 years
    Cemetery: Old Middelburg Municipal Cemetery, Mpumalanga, South Africa
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Boer War Memorial (Queen Victoria Square), Melbourne - 5th Contingent Victorian Mounted Rifles, Melbourne Grammar School Anglican Chapel of St. Peter Boer War Memorial Window, St Kilda Boer War Memorial
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    Boer War Service

    1 Oct 1899: Involvement Corporal, 1344
    1 Oct 1899: Involvement Corporal, 1344, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles
    30 Jan 1901: Enlisted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 1344, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, The son of LTCOL Robert Robertson from Portsea.
    15 Feb 1901: Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 1344, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, SS Orient.
    29 May 1901: Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 1344, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, Killed in Action.

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    Biography contributed by Maurice Kissane

    Robert was born in the Colony of Victoria in 1872. He was the son of LTCOL Robert Robertson and Johanna Kate Norton. He would have seen it as his duty to enlist and fight for Queen and Empire. He was good horseman but worked on a Station in Queensland. Hence he returned to Victoria to enlist in the 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles. He was KIA but is memorilaized on a family grave headstone in Melbourne. Lest We Forget. 

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