227098 Pte. Robert Henderson Royal Highlanders 1st Btn. Black Watch from:Paisley (d.25th Sep 1916) Robbie Henderson was an office boy who lived in Love Street Paisley, who enlisted in the army at Dunkeld, Perthshire and was attached initially to 1771 Scottish Horse. He was killed aged 21 on 25th of September 1916 during an attack down Flers trench in support of an attack on Goose Alley. One of the missing of the Somme, his name is inscribed on the memorial at Thiepval, France, the largest war memorial in the world, containing the names of 72,000 men who fell on the fields of Flanders. He had five brothers and sisters, one of whom, Margaret Henderson, was my maternal grandmother.
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