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Spr. Henry George Robinson
British Army 79th B.G.R.W. Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Swindon, Wiltshire
Harry Robinson, an apprentice engineer at GWR Swindon, volunteered in August 1914 and served with B Battery, 63rd Brigade Royal Field Artillery going to France in June 1915. Following shrapnel wounds and later catching diphtheria, Harry was treated at the Isolation Hospital at Etaples before being transferred in the summer of 1917 to the Royal Engineers Waterways and Railways and served with 79th B.G.R.W. Company where he served until the end of the war. Harry remained with the Army in France until 1920.

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