DescriptionMajor Sydney Beresford Robertson (a captain in this photo) was the son of Central Congregational pastor Reverend Joseph Robertson and Catherine Ross Robertson of The Manse, Quarry Street, Ipswich, who enlisted on 17 August 1914. Sydney Robertson had military service prior to enlistment for the First World War but was working as a law clerk at Walker & Walker in 1914. On 24th September 1914 he embarked on Omrah for the voyage to the conflict. He served with the 9th Battalion A.I.F. and was one of the first wave of soldiers ashore at Gallipoli at dawn on 25 April 1915. He was killed in action at Gallipoli on that day. His place of burial/memorial is at Beach Cemetery, Anzac, Gallipoli, Turkey.
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