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Pte. William Robertson
British Army 16th Battalion Cheshire Regiment
from:Astley Bridge, Bolton, Lancashire
(d.22nd Oct 1917)
William Robertson was the only child of my great grand mother Jane Bennett and her first husband James Robertson, he was born 1898. James Robertson died in 1899 when William was one year old. Jane Bennett married my great grandfather Albert Hall, 5th January 1901 and had four more children, the second being my grandmother Lily Hall (b.1903). William's mother Jane died in 1911 when he was 12. On the 1901 and 1911 census' William is living with his paternal grandfather Thomas Bennett and his second wife Mary Jane France.
I have a copy of William's WWI service records and a cousin of my mum's has sent me photographs of William's war medals, Memorial Plaque, British War Medal and Victory Medal. My relative always wondered why the medals were in his family's possession as he thought William was his father's stepbrother, he didn't realise it was his father's half brother. I would be grateful for any other information you have on William Robertson.
