Studio portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Stanley Claude Robinson of Albert Park, Victoria. A school ...

Accession Number P05248.113
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Place made Australia: Victoria
Date made circ 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Stanley Claude Robinson of Albert Park, Victoria. A school teacher prior to enlisting, he embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Nestor (A34) on 21 November 1917, after resigning his commission, as 6877A Private Robinson, 24th Battalion. On 12 June 1918, while on the front line near Vignacourt, France, he was wounded in action and died later that day at the 20th Casualty Clearing Station, France, aged 25. Lt Robinson is buried in the Vignacourt British Cemetery, France.