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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Richmond
• Land Victoria, Australia
• Last residence Clifford street, Prospect Park, South Australia
• Family Son of James and Margaret McPherson Robertson, of 8, Clifford St., Prospect, South Australia.
• Extra info Wounded in the same incident as George Samuel Manfield, also buried at Lijssenthoek

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted in Keswick, South Australia on 15 July 1915
• Service number 1562
• Rank Corporal
• Regiment and unit 5th Austr. Div. Australian Army Ordnance Corps
• Other data related to military career Embarked at Adelaide on 18 November 1915; to France on 23 June 1916; promoted to corporal on 1 June 1917

Death

• Wounded 8 October 1917
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds on head at n°7 Australian Field Ambulance
• Died at the age of 26
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - B - 18

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