Norman was born in 1915 in Portland, VIC. He is the son of Herbert Robins and Jeannie Jones.
He enlisted in the Australian Army for overseas service at Caulfield, VIC on 20 Jul 1940 as a Private (VX47692), having completed his attestation form at Portland, VIC on 11 Jul 1940. At the time he was single, a transport driver and was living in Portland with his mother.
He was posted to the 2/22nd Bn on 27 Aug 1940.
He entrained from Victoria for Sydney on 11Mar 1941, embarking there on HMT "Katoomba" on 12 Mar 1941 for Rabaul, New Britain in the Territory of New Guinea and disembarking there on 28 Mar 1941. His Battalion was to form the core of "Lark Force" for the defence of the Territory.
After the Japanese invasion of 23 Jan 1942 he was captured on the Lassul Bay coast and became a Prisoner of War, initially held at Rabaul. Japanese records have him as a part of B Coy.
He died on board the "Montevideo Maru" when it was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of the Philippines on 01 Jul 1942, en route from Rabaul to Hainan where he was destined for forced labour.
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