VP Day anniversary: Anna Bay's Jim Robertson reflects on grandfather and great-grandfather's WWII service

By Charlie Elias
Updated August 26 2020 - 11:56am, first published August 21 2020 - 4:30pm
REMEMBERED: Anna Bay's Jim Robertson with precious photos of his grandfather, Jim Robertson, who served in the Navy during WWII, and the Kanimbla.
REMEMBERED: Anna Bay's Jim Robertson with precious photos of his grandfather, Jim Robertson, who served in the Navy during WWII, and the Kanimbla.

Inscribed on the grave of Private Edward Emmanuel Robertson on a remote island in Borneo are the words: "One of Australia's brave - his duty nobly done - ever remembered".

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