Robin James Gilchrist

1901 - 1943  (41 years)

• Name	Robin James Gilchrist
  Born	12 Aug 1901	Redbank via Tiaro, Queensland, Australia
  Gender	Male
  Military Service WW2	Australian Army	27 Jul 1940-1 Aug 1943
  	Private ROBIN JAMES GILCHRIST QX10898 Service Australian Army Date of Birth 12 August 1902 Place of birth MARYBOROUGH, QLD Date of Enlistment 27 July 1940 Locality on Enlistment GOOLCHIE, QLD Place of Enlistment MARYBOROUGH, QLD Next of Kin GILCHRIST, JAMES Date of Death 1 August 1943 Posting on Death 2/26 Australian Infantry Battalion Prisoner of war YES (Australian government, Department of Veterans' Affairs)
  Died	1 Aug 1943	Thanbyuzayat, Mon State, Burma
  	Roll of Honour QX10898 Private GILCHRIST, ROBIN JAMES Australian Infantry Nationality Australian Japanese POW Died Age: 40 Date of Death: 1943/08/01 Place of Death: Thailand-Burma Railway Source: CWGC Memorial A1. D. 16. Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery ([Roll of Honour] [Thailand-Burma Railway] [G]) Pvt Robin James Gilchrist Birth: Aug. 12, 1902 Maryborough Queensland, Australia Death: Aug. 1, 1943, Myanmar (Burma) Parents: James & Eliza Gilchrist Enlistment: 27 July 1940 Location: Maryborough State: Queensland, Australia Battalion: 2/26 Infantry Battalion Company: Battalion Head Quarters Company Service Number: QX10898 Work Force: F Force Work Area: Shimo Sonkurai, Thailand Cause of Death: Malaria Place of Death: Shimo Sonkurai, Thailand Original Place: Shimo Sonkurai Camp of Burial.. Cemetery - Grave 125 Commemoration: Tiaro, Queensland in Australia ..**A.W.M. Canberra Ex-P.O.W. Memorial Wall, Ballarat, Victoria **A.W.M. - Australian War Memorial - Canberra "When you go home, Tell them of us, and say, For your tomorrow, We gave our today." Burial: Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery Thanbyuzayat Mon State, Myanmar (Burma) Plot: A1. D. 16. Maintained by: Muriel Butler Originally Created by: CWGC/ABMC Record added: Aug 06, 2010 Find A Grave Memorial# 56174727
  Remembrance	2011	Gundiah Gazette, News for Gundiah & Tiaro Districts
  	Tiaro's Sons November 2011 Private Robin James Gilchrist- WWII November 2011 Robert James Gilchrist was born at Redbank via Tiaro on 12 August, 1901. His parents were James Edward Gilchrist and Eliza Gilchrist nee Field, who were married on 24th August, 1887 in the residence of Alfred H. Hope, Old Maryborough Township, according to the rites of the Baptist Church. His grandparents, Edward & Elizabeth Douglas (nee Anderson) migrated to Maryborough on the "Ariendne," the first immigrant ship to sail directly from Great Britain to Maryborough on the 8th October 1862. Robin James' father was a timber getter and farmer who lived in Redbank near Tiaro, and later at his selection, "Pine View", via Gundiah. Young Robin James went to school at Deborah, which was a provisional school. The teacher being a Miss Bullcock, who attended the school only every 2nd week. Later Robin James, known as Jim, attended the Gundiah School, riding on horseback some miles to do so. Jim worked at home with his father as well as for other landholders in the district. He rode horses in the local sports events. Jim enlisted in World War II (QX 10898) joining the 2/26 Infantry Battalion on the 27 July 1940 and was lost in 1943 as a POW, having served time working on the Changi Railway. Of the 12,000 Australian prisoners who were taken to the Burma-Thailand railway, 2646 died of starvation, disease, exhaustion, and brutality. A headstone, dated 1 August 1943 remembering him is in the Tiaro Cemetery with his mother. Lest we forget. (Gundiah Gazette, News for Gundiah & Tiaro Districts)
  Buried	Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery Thanbyuzayat Mon State, Myanmar (Burma)
  	Plot: A1. D. 16.
  Person ID	I14284	Hickey, List, Bundesen, Thomsen, Jensen, Jessen
  Last Modified	6 Oct 2014

  
  

  Father	James Gilchrist,   b. 11 Oct 1862, Maryborough, Queensland, Australia ,   d. 17 Aug 1946, Maryborough, Queensland, Australia  (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Eliza Field,   b. Abt 1868, Yorkshire, England ,   d. 20 Nov 1903, Tiaro, Queensland, Australia  (Age ~ 35 years)
  Married	24 Aug 1887	Maryborough, Queensland, Australia
  Marriage Notice	27 Aug 1887	Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser , Queensland
  	Marriage Gilchrist-Field.-On August 24th., by the Rev. W. Bonser, at the residence of the bride's parents, James Gilchrist, of Tiaro, to Eliza Field, of Maryborough. Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser , Queensland, Saturday, 27 August 1887
  Family ID	F4956	Group Sheet

  
  

• Photos

  Robin James Gilchrist Memorial for Robin James Gilchrist on the grave of James and Eliza Gilchrist Robin James GILCHRIST, died P.O.W. Malaya aged 42 years He died on 1 Aug 1943 at Shimo Sonkurai, Thailand while working on the Thailand-Burma Railway. (http://www.chapelhill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Photos/Tiaro-Tiaro)