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Pte. Robert Edward Henry Griffiths
British Army 1st Btn. Northamptonshire Regiment
from:Peterborough
(d.18th Jul 1916)
Robert Griffiths was one of two brothers born 1879 in Haggerston, Middlesex to George a railway guard, and his wife Harriet Griffiths, he was christened Robert Edward Henry Griffiths but sometimes called Richard. He left his family around 1901 and enlisted in the Army at Peterborough. He is commemorated on Framlingham Suffolk War Memorial and is buried in Contalmaison Chateau Cemetery.
His brother Lance Corporal Charles Probert Griffiths (wrongly named on the War Memorial as E.C.Griffiths) of the Suffolk Regiment died 29th of July 1916 and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Their nephew died in 1919 at home a returned P.O.W. Pte. Robert Probert Simmons, born in Leyton. originally 22137, 10th Btn. Suffolk Regiment then 17515, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment was captured and sent to a German P.O.W. Camp. He died following an operation just after discharge in 1919 to pension and SWB from pneumonia. George Probert Griffiths lost three members of his family in WW1.