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ROBINSON, Harold Frederick

Service Number:	2184
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	7th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Echuca, Victoria, Australia, 27 August 1889
Home Town:	Traralgon, Latrobe, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Hairdresser
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, 8 August 1915, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey Inscription on permanent headstone:"I have lost, heaven has gained, one of the best the world contained" Ada May Robinson 29-04-1922
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hampton RSL Gallipoli Memorial Gardens, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing

World War 1 Service

17 Jun 1915:	Involvement Private, 2184, 7th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: ''
17 Jun 1915:	Embarked Private, 2184, 7th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne
8 Aug 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2184, 7th Army Service Corps, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli, During the charge at Lone Pine in August informant was near Robinson whom he knew very well. Robinson was wounded (in the arm he thinks it was) and informant took him to the dressing station and left him there. the wound did not appear serious and that was the last he saw of him. he heard however he had gone to Egypt and his letters were forwarded there. Private J Orr A. Coy Sarpi Rest Camp Mudros
8 Aug 1915:	Wounded Private, 2184, 7th Australian Army Service Corps, ANZAC / Gallipoli, He was badly wounded at Lone Pine on Aug 8-9 was put on hospital ship and went to Alexandria and has been seen by Corp Ryder is now at Luna Park hospital, Heliopolis. Pte J.A. Howard. D. Coy. Sarpi Rest Camp, Lemnos
15 Aug 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2184, 7th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, On the Saturday afternoon August 8th at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, he and I were among bomb throwers and were side by side at the back of the third line trench when he was hit by a bomb from the Turks. Afterwards, I saw him taken away on a stretcher to the dressing station near the second line trench and that is all I know. He never spoke after he was hit as far as I can say. Aaron Jones 10120 2nd Inf. Brig A.I.F. Harefield Hospital Middlesex

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