Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918
2nd Lieut A J Robertson, from
Record of Active Service.
Robertson A J 2nd Lt Alexander John 11 Inf Bn 28 Mining engineer & geologist Married Pres
Address: Western Australia
Next of Kin: Robertson, Violet Ann, Mrs, wife, c/- Mrs F F Dakin, Barry St, Kew
Parents at 35 Hutcheson St, Moonee Ponds
Enlisted: 10 May 1915
Embarked: A2 Geelong 6 Jun 1915 (Fremantle)
Prior service: Melbourne University Rifles (Sgt)
Relatives on Active Service:
Gilchrist A H 2nd Lt brother in law
Date of Death: 06/08/1915
CWGC: "Son of James Lang Robertson and Annie McArthur Robertson, of 35, Hutcheson St.,
Moonee Ponds, Victoria. Native of Bundalaguah, Victoria, Australia".
SHELL GREEN CEMETERY
Robertson's father had been an inspector with the Education Department, and later opened his own secondary school known as the Essendon High School, a private school for boys. This was located on the corner of Robinson and Crawford St, on a site now occupied by St Monica's Primary School.
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ROBERTSON, ALEXANDER JOHN, 1905
St Andrew's Coll., Bendigo; Ormond; M.Sc.; final honours, with scholarship in Geology and Kernot Research Scholarship; football blue, and in Engineers' winning eight 1909; Sgt in Junior Cadets, and a good marksman in M.U.R; Asst Mineralogist, and afterwards chemist and analyst, in Geological Survey of W.A.
On outbreak of war carried out a military survey near Perth; afterwards trained in Blackboy Camp, and won commission; sailed 6.6.15 to Egypt with 11th Btn, then to Gallipoli.
On 7th August, while holding a captured Turkish trench, and repelling a counter attack, he was shot, and died immediately, aet. 28.
Record of Active Service of Teachers, Graduates, Undergraduates, Officers and Servants in the European War, 1914-1919, H W Allan (ed). University of Melbourne, [1926] Also known as Record of active service, 1914-1918.
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Essendon Gazette 14 Oct 1915
News has been received of the death in action of Lieutenant Alexander John Robertson, son of Mr. J. L. Robertson, M.A., of Moonee Ponds. Mr. Robertson was a graduate (M.Sc.) of the University of Melbourne, where he had been a member of Ormond College, and for some years past he had held a scientific appointment under the West Australian Government. His commanding officer says, "He died a gallant Australian soldier."
SOCIAL BREVITIES. (1915, October 14). The Essendon Gazette and Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 3 Edition: Morning.. Retrieved January 16, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74590396
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ROBERTSON, ALEXANDER JOHN, 1905
St Andrew's Coll, Bendigo; Ormond; MSc; final honours with scholarship in Geology and Kernot Research Scholarship; football blue, and in Engineers' winning eight 1909. Sgt in Junior Cadets, and a good marksman in MUR; Aust Mineralogist, and afterwards chemist and analyst, in Geological Survey of WA.
On outbreak of war carried out a military survey near Perth; afterwards trained in Blackboy Camp, and won commission; sailed 6.6.15 to Egypt with 11th Btn, then to Gallipoli.
On 7th August 1915, while holding a captured Turkish trench, and repelling a counter-attack, he was shot and died immediately, aet 28.
Record of Active Service of Teachers, Graduates, Undergraduates, Officers and Servants in the European War, 1914-1919, H W Allan (ed). University of Melbourne, [1926] Also known as Record of active service, 1914-1918.
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War Service Commemorated
St John's Presbyterian Church (A)
Record of Active Service
Killed in Action
ROBERTSON. - Killed in action at Dardanelles, on
August 6, Alexander John Robertson (lieutenant),
late of Geological Survey of West Australia,
beloved husband of Violet Robertson, aged 28 years.
ROBERTSON. - Killed in action on Gallipoli
Peninsula, 6th August, 1915, Lieutenant Alexander
John Robertson, 11th Battalion, A.I.F., only son
of James L. and Annie McA., and brother of Bessie,
Effie, and Jean, of Moonee Ponds, aged 28 years.
"He gave his life for me."
"Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee
a crown of life."
"Good-night, beloved! - to meet on that morn."
Family Notices. (1915, October 11). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956), p. 1.
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ROBERTSON. - A loving tribute to our noble
nephew and cousin, Lieutenant Alexander John
Robertson, 11th Battalion A.I.F., who fell at
Gallipoli, 6th August, 1915, bravely fighting for
home and Empire.
A soldier and a man.
"No partings yonder, no sad good-byes;
No pain, no sickness, and no weeping eyes;
The future bright, the past all understood;
We'll see that all the way God led, was good.
-(Inserted by Mr and Mrs Chas. Foster, Eric,
and Bruce. (Cousin of Daisy, who passed away
September 19.)
Family Notices. (1915, October 12). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956), p. 1.
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