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Pte. James Robertson
British Army 12th Btn. Highland Light Infantry
from:Jarrow
(d.25th Sep 1915)
James Robertson, Private 18747, enlisted in Glasgow and served with the 12th Battalion the Highland Light Infantry. He is remembered at St Mark's Church and Loos Memorial. His medal card records the award of the 1915 Star, war and Victory Medals and that he was killed in action age 27 on the 25th September 1915.
James was born in Jarrow, son of george Spence and Helen Kay Robertson of 55 Cobden Street, Jarrow 1888. In the 1911 census James(23) is a boarder at 13 Thorngrove Road, Upton Park, Essex and works as a Ship Plater in shipbuilders.