Regimental number | 2175 |
Place of birth | Helsingfors, Finland |
Religion | Lutheran |
Occupation | Farm labourer |
Address | Livingstone Road, North Melbourne, Victoria |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 33 |
Height | 5' 4.75" |
Weight | 140 lbs |
Next of kin | Father, Otto Graubin, 26 Fou Lane, Barchell, Helsingfors, Finland, Russia |
Previous military service | Nil |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 59th Battalion, 4th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/76/3 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A67 Orsova on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 59th Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 29), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 167 |
Other details |
War service: Western Front Embarked Melbourne, 1 August 1916; disembarked Plymouth, England, 14 September 1916. Admitted to Fargo Military Hospital, 20 September 1916; discharged, 1 October 1916; total period of treatment for venereal disease: 12 days. Found guilty, 9 October 1916, of being absent without leave from 2400, 9 October, to 2000, 11 October 1916: awarded 12 days' Field Punishment No. 2, forfeited 14 days' pay. Proceeded overseas to France, 6 December 1916; taken on strength, 59th Bn, 29 December 1916. Reported missing in action, 26 September 1917. Court of Enquiry, 22 March 1918, confirmed fate as killed in action. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |