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William Roy Robson

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Portrait, WW1, studio photograph, painted backdrop of tree with tents, William Robson 3/1082 NZ Medical Corps - C Section 2nd Field Ambulance - No known copyright restrictions

Portrait, WW1, studio photograph, painted backdrop of tree with tents, William Robson 3/1082 NZ Medi …

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    William Roy AWMM
  • Surname
    Robson AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    3/1082 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi
  • Hapū
  • Waka
  • Rohe
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Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    30 October 1894 AWMM New Zealand AWMM
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Unknown AWMM 19 Emerson Street, Petone, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Walter George Robson (father), 19 Emerson Street, Petone, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 9 October 1915 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    WW1 Unknown AWMM Wellington, New Zealand AWMM
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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
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Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    Accidental Death, Cause of Death AWMM
    Injuries following an automobile accident AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

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  • Son of Mary Ann Robson and Walter George Robson.

    George Alexander Dolphin (3/2054), John Forrester (3/1018), Thomas William Parsons (3/1184) and William Roy Robson (3/1082) carried a stretcher case across no-mans-land under fire during the second phase of the 1916 Big Push on the Somme.

    Lower Hutt Battalion, Home Guard, WWII. The Home Guard's first military funeral. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    31 May 1941 AWMM
    Wanganui, Manawatu-Wanganui AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Accidental Death AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Taita Lawn Cemetery, Northern end Rimu Street, Naenae, Lower Hutt, New Zealand AWMM Church of England section Row 12 plot 8 AWMM
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Sources

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    • Unpublished papers: family papers. AWMM
      This incident is described in the William Robson's diary in late September 1916, a copy of which is held in the Online Cenotaph Archives held in the Museum Archives. AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      Vol1: 625 AWMM
    • Cooke, P. (2018). Roll of New Zealand’s Second World War Dead. Wellington, N.Z.: Defence of New Zealand Study Group.; Peter Cooke; 2018. AWMM
      p.378 AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM

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