Keith John ROBINSON

Regimental number2/734A
AddressCPO Auckland
Marital statusMarried
Next of kinWife, Mrs K J Robinson, 6 Cleveland Road, Parnell, Auckland
Rank on embarkationCorporal
Enlistment statusVolunteer
Unit nameNew Zealand Expeditionary Force, 2nd Reinforcements, New Zealand Field Artillery
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington on 14 December 1914
No 1 Field Artillery Brigade left New Zealand on board 'Willochra'; No 4 Howitzer Battery on board 'Knight of the Garter'. It is not possible from the Nominal Roll to determine on which ship an individual embarked.
Medals

Military Medal

'Devotion to duty near Longueval on the evening of 15th September 1916. After the drivers and team of ammunition wagon and all been either wounded or dazed by shell fire, Bombardier Robinson, brakesman of the wagon, on recovering his senses, first helped a wounded driver to a neighbouring dressing station, and then returned to the wagon, which was still under shell fire, and made repeated efforts to get other teams to take the wagon to the guns, where the ammunition was wanted.'
Source: London Gazette
Date: 6 January 1917

Miscellaneous detailsNominal Roll Vol. 1: Field Artillery/Second

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