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Driver Gordon Robson (Service No:Q127095) served in the ACMF with 1st and 2nd Auxilaiary Horse Transport Coys from 27 January 1942 to 13 December 1942 (Medically Unfit).

Born in 1914 at Laidley in the Lockyer Valley in QLD, Gordon was the youngest of eleven children of Walter James Robson (b1870 in Laidley, QLD) and Wilhelmina (Minnie) Augusta Khuz (b1872 at Kalbar, QLD). Walter (a Labourer) and Minnie married in 1894 and lived at Mt Hallen nr Esk where Walter was a Timber Getter before settling in Laidley where they raised their family and Walter was a Labourer. In 1918, Walter committed suicide, leaving Minnie to raise their eight surviving children.

Gordon worked as a Labourer in Tewantin QLD and in 1939 he married Dulcie Allen (b1919 in Dalby, QLD). Gordon held several jobs, including with QLD Railways and as a Cleaner, and was unemployed in 1942 when he enlisted in the ACMF. Following his Discharge on medical grounds, Gordon and Dulcie lived in Pinkenba, Fortitude Valley and Nundah where Gordon worked as a Labourer. In the mid 1950s they settled at Wavell Heights in Brisbane where they raised their family and Gordon worked as a Night Watchman and volunteered with St Vincent de Paul Society. Gordon died in 1998 and Dulcie in 2002.