Soldier profiles

Name : ROBERTSHAW, JOSEPH BARTIMEAUS
Service Number : VX73506
Date of Birth : 10/05/1916
Place of Birth : FOOTSCRAY, VIC
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : STOVE FITTER AND TESTER
Date of Enlistment : 27/01/1942
Locality on Enlistment : NORTH FOOTSCRAY, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : ROBERTSHAW, FLORENCE
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : PRIVATE
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 2/12 INFANTRY BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) :
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War : NEW GUINEA, BORNEO
Actions : NADZAB (NEW GUINEA), RAMU VALLEY (NEW GUINEA), TARAKAN (BORNEO), BALIKPAPAN (BORNEO)
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 29/11/1945
Date Died : 02/09/1961
Age at Death : 45
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : FOOTSCRAY CEMETERY, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.
K.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
D.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
M.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. (location/s) : NO
Died P.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. Camps (details) : N/A
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : N/A
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : NO
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6110027 [OPEN]), WW2 Nominal Roll

Background : Eldest son of Joseph Robertshaw and Jane Todd. 16/05/1936 Married Florence Sarah Anne Gathercole in Footscray.

Service & personal summary At enlistment : married. Height 5 feet 8 inches, blue eyes, fair complexion, fair hair.

Service record
27/01/1942 Taken on strength Caulfield, Victoria.
11/02/1942 10th Training Battalion, Balcombe, Mt. Martha, Victoria.
12/03/1942 5th Pioneer Company Caulfield, Victoria.
17/06/1942 34th Training Battalion Watsonia, Victoria.
23/06/1942 2/2 Pioneer Battalion. Entrained for Sydney.
26/03/1943 Entrained for Queensland.
25/07/1943 Embarked Townsville, Queensland on H.M.T. Duntroon. Disembarked Port Moresby. Operations in New Guinea included Nadzab, Ramu Valley and Finnisterre Ranges.
08/02/1944 Embarked Port Moresby, New Guinea on H.M.A.S. Kanimbla. Disembarked Townsville, Queensland.
28/06/1944 Admitted to hospital with scabies.
03/08/1944 Rejoined unit.
16/03/1945 Embarked Cairns, Queensland on U.S.A.T. Sea Barb. Disembarked Morotai.
22/04/1945 Embarked Morotai for landings at Tarakan, Borneo.
18/05/1945 Embarked Tarakan, Borneo. Disembarked Morotai.
09/07/1945 Embarked Morotai for landings at Balikpapan, Borneo on U.S.S. LST-1018.
10/10/1945 2/12th Infantry Battalion.
11/11/1945 Embarked on H.M.S. Implacable. Disembarked Sydney, New South Wales.
29/11/1945 Discharged.