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Pte. Robert Carr
British Army 8th Btn. Gordon Highlanders
(d.25th September 1915)
Robert Carr was born in the village of Killearn in Stirlingshire and was a general labourer.
He originally enlisted in the Cameron Highlanders on the 13th of October in Edinburgh aged 32. But was discharged medically unfit for active service twelve days after joining due to a bad right knee. He Re-enlisted into the Gordon Highlanders on the 24th of May 1915 in Aberdeen.
He was posted to France on the 14th of July 1915 and placed into a camp before being moved to the 5th Entrenching Battalion on the 3rd of September and then moved into the 8th Battalion on the 13th at Beuvry along with 29 other men two of them being English. Sadly, he was killed presumed missing in action on the 25th of September 1915 in the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt. His name is on the is on Panel 116 in the Loos Memorial.