215425 Able.Sea. Robert Raine Royal Navy Hawke Btn. Royal Naval Division (d.29th Jun 1915) Robert Raine, served in the Hawke Battalion of the Royal Naval Division and died age 19 on the 29th June 1915 he is remembered at the Jarrow Library and at the Helles Memorial.
Robert was born in Hebburn 1895, son of Mary Jane Raine nee Fuller and the late John Raine. In the 1911 census the family is living at 10 Fir Street, Hebburn with John Raine(44), an underground pumping engineer at the coal mine and his wife of 20 years Mary Jane. They had 5 children of which 4 survived and 3 are still living at home. Ena (19)- a domestic servant, Robert (15)- a belt boy at surface of coal mine and Jack Keers who is 5 years old.
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