230981 L/Cpl. Robert Henry House British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers from:49 Lower Rutland St. Off Summer Hill, Dublin Robert House was born in August 1894 in the Curragh Amy Camp, County Kildare in Ireland. His father was Robert Charles House, a sergeant based at the camp in the Army Service Corps.
Robert enlisted with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers on the 2nd of July 1914.
He married his sweetheart, Sarah Jane McCord, at the Pro Cathedral in Dublin on the 7th of December 1914.
He landed in France as part of the British Expedition Force on the 3rd of January 1915.
On the 29th Lance Corporal Robert Henry House while on active service at St.Yves in Belgium was wounded. He received gun shot wounds to his chest, upper left arm and his two feet. The wounds to his feet fractured his first, second and third metatarsals bones. While at General Hospital Boulogne he is diagnosed with rheumatism and bronchitis.
He was transferred to H.S. Carrisbrook Castle on the 10th of February
and sent back to England arriving at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley. At the Royal Dublin Fusiliers Depot, Robert Henry House is discharged from the British Army deemed No Longer Physically Fit for War Service on the 6th of August 1915.
This brave young 19 year old man's army career was short, only lasting
13 months. He was unlucky to be badly wounded but very lucky to survive
them. He went on to have a large family, marrying twice and lived in Dublin, Ireland until 1971.
Robert Henry House late of 63 Kildare road, Crumlin,
Dublin, Ireland died at St. Jame`s Hospital Dublin. Having survived his serious War Wounds in January 1915, it was Cancer of the Stomach and Lungs which was the cause of his Death. This man was a True Hero to his generation.
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