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COLLINSON, Robert Ernest
Personal Details
| Service Numbers: | VX43564, V145244 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Mildura, Vic., 4 September 1915 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
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Service History
World War 2 Service
| 15 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX43564, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 May 1941: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX43564, 2nd/22nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 9 Jan 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, V145244 | |
| 7 Nov 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, V145244 |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Bandsman Robert Collinson was 24 years old, married, and played baritone in the Red Cliffs Corps Band at the time he enlisted into the ill-fate 2/22nd Battalion Band in July 1940.
Bert suffered a leg injury and was left behind when the Battalion sailed for Rabaul,its members to be soon after killed or captured by the invading Japanese (one bandsman escaped back to Port Moreby) and most of them to eventually perish when their prisoner-of-war ship was torpedoed by an Allied submarine.
Bert never came to terms with not going to Rabaul with his fellow military bandsmen.
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