JAMISON, Robert Gibton

Robert Gibton Jamison, known as 'Skipper', enlisted late in the war and never got to serve at any of the battle fronts. The son of John and Ellen, nee Eades, Jamison. Robert was a clerk, living at 8 Lisson Grove, Hawthorn. On 26 June, 1907, he had married Rita Pilbeam at the Rowe Crescent Congregational Church, Albert Park, and the couple had one child, born c.1913, James Pilbeam Jamison. At the time he enlisted Robert Jamison was thirty three and one month old when the war was still seeming to be without end, and it is possible he felt some sort of moral obligation to do his bit.

He signed up to serve on 17 May, 1918. Margaret moved from Hawthorn to East Melbourne, living at 'Raleigh' in Hoddle Street. Robert moved to the military training camp at Broadmeadows on 10 June, then on 11 June, shifted to Langwarren. On 7 August, he was back at Broadmeadows and assigned to serve with the 14th General Reinforcements. They embarked from Adelaide on the A36 Boonah on 22 October, 1918. By now the war was in its last month and there was little or no chance of the new recruits being of use in the AIF. Here Robert Jamison's war record stops. Presumably the Boonah turned around and they were deposited back  in either Adelaide or Melbourne, but it is not on his record.

He died in 1971, aged 85, at Boronia, Victoria.