Frank Henry ROBINSON

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ROBINSON, Frank Henry

Service Number:	W69381
Enlisted:	29 March 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	1st (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 8 December 1882
Home Town:	Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Iron Moulder
Died:	Perth, Western Australia, 22 May 1962, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

29 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W69381
24 Oct 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W69381, 1st (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Date unknown:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W69381

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Frank Henry Robinson (Service No:W69381) was fifty nine years of age when he enlisted in the ACMF on 29 March 1942. He was attached to 1 Battalion VDC (Swan) when he was Discharged on 24 October 1945.

Born in 1882 in Sydney NSW, Frank was the youngest of eight children of Thomas Robinson (b1845 in Lancashire, England) and Alice Bridget McCarthy (b1843 in Limerick, Ireland). Thomas (a Royal Nay Seaman) deserted ship in Sydney in 1863 and Alice (a Domestic Servant) also arrived in 1863 on board the Morning Star. Thomas (a Blacksmith) and Alice married in 1867 in Sydney NSW and by 1900 were living with their family in Perth WA.

Frank married Agnes Mary Screen (b1884 in Gloucestershire, England) in 1906 in Boulder WA. Frank and Agnes settled in Perth where they raised eight children and Frank worked as a Greengrocer, Engine Driver and Pig Farmer before working as Iron Moulder. Agnes died in 1957 and Frank in 1962.

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