ROBERTSON, Herbert William

  1. Service Details
  2. Personal Details
  3. Unit and Rank Details
  4. Commemoration
  5. Notes
  6. Sources

Service Details

Branch of Service
Army
Conflict
World War I (1914-1918)
Date of Enlistment
05/03/1915
Date of Discharge
24/01/1919
Place of Enlistment
Liverpool NSW

Personal Details

Gender
Male
Other Name(s)
Known as 'Bert' and 'Cooper' Robertson
Place of Birth
Irishtown, Queanbeyan NSW
Address (at enlistment)
Sydney NSW (previously Oaks Estate ACT)
Occupation
Labourer
Next of Kin
Rebecca Robertson (mother), Henrietta Street, Sydney NSW

Unit and Rank Details

Service Number
314, 203, 7117
Final Rank
Private
Final Unit
19 Battalion AIF

Commemoration

Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford Street, Queanbeyan NSW

Notes

Bert Robertson came from Oaks Estate and enlisted three times. He first enlisted on 5 March 1915 with the 17th Battalion and served on Gallipoli where he was wounded in the arm near Hill 60 in August and returned to Australia to be discharged on 18 August 1916. In January 1917 he enlisted with the District Guard but was discharged 6 months later as his services were not required. He enlisted for the third time on 8 August 1917 with the 19th Battalion and married Elizabeth Stobbs shortly after. He arrived in France in July 1918 and later that month he was wounded in action again receiving a gun shot wound to the arm and "a lump of metal in his left thigh". He returned to Australia and was discharged on 24 January 1919. Robertson died on 23 October 1949 at 66 years of age and was buried in the Queanbeyan Riverside Cemetery. He is listed on the Queanbeyan Public School Roll of Honor as 'Robertson, W'.

Description - height 5 feet 6¼ inches, weight 135 pounds, chest 31-34½ inches, dark complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, Church of England, scar on his left buttock.

Sources

Narelle O'Rourke, 'A Country Nurse and Midwife', 1989
Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
Peter Procter, 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan', Canberra, Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra, 2001 (p.269)
Karen Williams, 'Oaks Estate: No Man's Land', 1997
Queanbeyan Age - 23 July 1915, 31 July 1917, 11 September 1917, 6 September 1918, 25 October 1918
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)

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