| Regimental number | 742 |
| Place of birth | Sydney, New South Wales |
| Religion | Congregational |
| Occupation | Insurance Inspector |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 23 |
| Next of kin | Mother, Mrs E Robjohn, Erandale, 105 Carrington Road, Waverley, New South Wales |
| Previous military service | Nil |
| Enlistment date | |
| Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | Australian General Hospital 2 |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 26/66/1 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board Transport A55 Kyarra on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 52nd Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 25 |
| 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 | 156 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Herbert and Esther ROBJOHNS (as spelt), Hillside, 8 Lintern Road, Ashfield, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Other details |
War service: Egypt, Western Front Admitted to 4th Auxiliary Hospital, Abbassia, 20 January 1916 (mumps); transferred to 2nd Australian General Hospital, Ghezireh, 17 January 1916. Appointed Lance Corporal, 1 February 1916. Rejoined unit, 17 March 1916. Promoted Corporal, 24 March 1916. Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 26 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, 4 April 1916. Admitted to 2nd Australian General Hospital, Moussot, 20 July 1916 (influenza); discharged to duty, 25 July 1916. On leave to England, 17 October 1916; rejoined unit, 29 October 1916. Transferred to 52nd Bn, 18 November 1916. To School of Instruction, 14 January 1917; rejoined unit, 8 February 1917. Killed in action, 9 June 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
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