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Pte. Robert Devitt
British Army 10th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
from:Whitby
(d.28th Sep 1915)
Robert and John Devitt were brothers who joined up in 1914. Robert Devitt joined the Yorkshire Regiment and John joined the Northumberland Fusiliers. They were both killed within two days of one another in September 1915 at the Battle of Loos. They had been in France less than three weeks. My granny Nora Brown nee Devitt (sister of R and J) recalled to me in the late 1960s that her mother Sarah received two telegrams on the same day informing her that her only two sons had been killed. Their father Edward, who was already an invalid, never recovered from the shock and died a couple of years later.
Robert is buried in Noux les Mines, France but John has no known grave - he is remembered with honour on the Loos Memorial.
