246328 L/Cpl. Robert John Drake British Army 14th (1st Birmingham) Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.26th October 1917) Robert Drake, son of Walter and Rebecca Drake of 63 Corn Street, Witney, lived in Eaton Socon. He served with the 14th (1st Birmingham) Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment and was killed in action on 26th of October 1917 age 24 years near Ypres. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial. He is also remembered on the grave of his parents in Eaton Socon churchyard, Cambridgeshire. A pupil of Bedford Modern School 1906-10, he is commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com.
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