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Cpl. David Robinson
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Belfast, Ballymacarrett, Co Down
(d.26th Oct 1914)
My Great Grandfather David Robinson was shipped out for the commencement of the WW1, I have been unable to find out when he had joined the regular Army but have traced when he lost his life it was 12 days into the war at the Battle of Le Mons. He left behind my Great Granny Robinson who died in early 1970s and my Grandmother who was an only child. He is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, France.
Stoker 1st Class. Edmond Harry Robinson
Royal Naval Division C Coy. Anson Battalion
from:41 Moseley Street, Burnley, Lancashire.
(d.1st June 1915)
Stoker Edmund Robinson died of wounds aboard HMT Franconia on 1st June 1915, aged 23. He is buried in the East Mudros Military Cemetery, Island of Lemnos, Greece.
L/Cpl. Edward Robinson
British Army 10th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Hull
(d.24th April 1917)
Pte. Frederick Robinson
British Army 2/6 Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Leeds
Fred Robinson traveled to Bradford from Leeds, Woodhouse district in 1915 to volunteer, though he was not called up until January 1916. He went to France with the battalion in January 1917 and saw active service.
He was rated as a sniper with a crossed rifle badge on his forearm. At some time he was wounded, probably from the 8 inch scar, by shrapnel and evacuated to England for treatment. One day, as we passed through Milton on Sea, he informed us that he had spent time recovering there. He transferred to the York and Lancaster Regiment when the 2/6th was disbanded.
Pte. Frederick Charles Robinson
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Stratford, Essex
According to his records, my grandfather Frederick Robinson appears to have been caught in the middle of the army mixing him up with his brother and losing his identity papers, eventually he had to give the army his recollection of his record as he remembered it in order to get his medals and pension.
When I was a teenager in the sixties Fred suffered a nervous breakdown, which the psychiatrist, who treated him, said was the suppressed war memories coming to the surface. He recovered and was always an affable and loving grandfather.
Pte George Ellis Robinson
British Army 18th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Bradford
My Grandfather was George Ellis Robinson. He enlisted in the 2nd Bradford pals and was an infantryman until 10th July 1916. His service then changed with the formation of the machine gun corps where he served with the 6th Btn until being demobbed on 5th May 1919.
On surviving the war he married his Bradford girlfriend Ethel Abrahams and they had one child who was my mother Betty. They moved to St Annes on sea in later life where my Grandfather died in 1970. Though very young when he died I do remember him and am so glad to have a living link with such a proud and dignified man.
Cpl. George Cecil Robinson
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. George Robinson
British Army 11th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Boston Spa
(d.4th July 1916)
George Robinson was in France for nine months before his death. He was the eighth child of the eleven children born to Edward and Lizzie Robinson. He was born on 1st July 1894 in Boston Spa, Yorkshire. On the 1911 census when he was 16 he was living with his parents, twelve year old brother Arthur, ten year old brother Alfred and his occupation was butchers assistant.
He enlisted at York into the 11th Battalion, the West Yorkshire Regiment formed in September 1914 as part of Field Marshal Kitchener’s massive recruiting campaign. In the summer of 1915 he was in training at Bramshott, before leaving for France at the end of August. Bramshott is a hamlet on the border of Hampshire and Surrey and during the first World War~ Tin Town grew up around it.
In May 1916 George wrote to his class leaders at Boston Spa Methodist Church
“I have put myself fully into His hand, to use me as He will, as he knows what is best for me and I can face the dangers of war cheerfully”
At the first Battle of the Somme, when so many soldiers perished, it was only the regular 1st and 2nd battalions of the West Yorkshire who fought. George’s battalion was behind the lines just north of Amien. On the 3rd July the Battalion relieved the 16th Royal Scots in Scots Redoubt and the adjacent trenches. The Battalion diary records that on the 4th July “ Attacked the enemy’s lines during the afternoon and obtained our objective. We were forced to retire, so fell back on our own lines”
According to a history of the West Yorkshire there was constant bombing attacks by both sides but no important alteration of the line took place. However, nineteen soldiers died on that day all with their names recorded on The Thiepval Memorial as having no known grave including George just three days after his 22nd birthday.
L/Cpl. George Henry Robinson
British Army 10th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment
from:7 Redmarshall St., Stillington, Stockton on Tees
(d.19th Nov 1916)
George Robinson, known as Harry, has no known grave and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, Albert, France. He is also commemorated on the Stillington village Memorial and the on the lectern of the village church, near Stockton on Tees. A small plaque to his memory has also been placed at the Lochnagar Crater. His full story is on the North East War Memorial Project website.
George Ellis Robinson
British Army 93rd Coy Machine Gun Corps
from:Bradford, Yorks
Pte George Robinson
British Army 10th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Pelton
Pte. Gerald W Robinson
British Army 13th (Kensington) Btn. London Regiment
from:Ampthill
(d.9th April 1917)
Private Gerald W Robinson, lived in Ampthill and enlisted in Southampton. Initially served with 12th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment (service no.23436) then with the 13th (County of London) Battalion, (Princess Louises Kensington Battalion), London Regiment (service no.493900).
He was killed in action on 9th April 1917 in France and Flanders and is buried in London Cemetery, France. He is remembered on both The War Memorial and The Alamada, St. Andrews Church, Ampthill.
Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
Pte. Harold Robinson
British Army 1st Battalion Royal Scots
from:Carlton, Nottingham
(d.26th Apr 1915)
Harold Robinson of the 1st Battalion Royal Sots was killed whilst fighting at Sanctuary Wood, Zillebeke, he was 27 years old. The brother of Mrs. F. Dickenson of 105 Cemetery Road, Carlton, Nottingham. Harold is remembered on the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial.
Lt. Harry Noel Cornforth Robinson MC
Royal Flying Corps 17 Sqdn.
from:Hartlepool
Harry Robinson was the eldest son of railway clerk Henry and his wife Dorothy, and was born on 25th December 1898. Harry was educated at Mr Scott’s High School for Boys in York Road, Hartlepool and at Durham Grammar School.
He joined the Royal Flying Corps in March 1916 and by August, was flying over the German lines on the Western front in a Sopwith Pup with No. 46 Squadron, the squadron was soon re-equipped with Sopwith Camels. In May 1917 he was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps and, following confirmation of his rank, became a flying officer in July 1917 with No. 17 Squadron. In December 1917 Harry scored his first aerial victory, capturing a German reconnaissance aircraft. In his second victory, on 11th March 1918, he drove down a German Albatros DV. Harry secured six further victories between the 21st and 24th March and was appointed a flight commander, moving to No. 70 Squadron. He took two more victories in April and May. He was awarded a Military Cross which was gazetted on 3rd of May for showing “conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty” in an aerial attack, while running out of petrol.
Harry remained in the RAF after the war and saw active service in Iraq in 1921, where he won the Distinguished Flying Cross. He went on to become a lecturer and instructor in bombing and gunnery at RAF Eastchurch in Kent, but fell ill in late 1925. Harry died on 2nd June 1926, at a sanatorium in Norfolk. He was just 27 years old and left his wife Erica and a daughter.
Pte. Harry Robinson
British Army 2nd/4th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment
from:Warcop, Westmorland
(d.27th July 1917)
Harry Robinson was born in Reagill, Morland, Westmorland in 1897 and baptised at Long Marton, the home village of his father. His parents were John & Agnes (nee Bird) Robinson. The Robinsons were a large farming family living in various farms in the Eden Valley, including Reagill Grange and Eden Vale, Warcop, where Harry was living when he enlisted into the Border Regiment. He was later transferred to the East Lancs.
His Battalion were based near the Belgium Coast when Harry was killed in action 27th of July 1917 age 19. His family who were living at Barwise Hall, Hoff, Appleby at the time, were informed of his death. Harry is buried at Coxyde Military Cemetery, Belgium. His name is on the Warcop War Memorial.
Pte. Heber Robinson
British Army 10th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Norley, Cheshire
(d.12th Apr 1918)
Heber Robinson enlisted on the 28th of August 1914. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium. Aged 29, he lived at Lyndon Cottage School lane in Norley with his wife Janet who he had married in Nov 1911, they had one son Harold born in 1912. A plaque with his name is on Norley's Wildflower Memorial Walk.
Sgt. Henry Robinson
British Army 2nd Btn. A Company Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:33 Allerton Terrace, Leeds
Henry Robinson married my great great aunt, on his wedding certificate in 1918 he is shown as being a sergeant with A Company, 2nd Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. He was 13 years her junior. She already had a child and was a widow. I wonder whether he may have been injured during the war and needed looking after. I think that when his wife died he married her sister - my great grandma.
Pte. Henry Bernard Robinson
British Army 8th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:73 Stockbridge Street, Padiham
(d.23rd Sep 1917)
Henry Robinson died on the 23rd of September 1917 after being wounded the day before in a infamous Hill 60 shell burst in the 3rd Battle of Ypres. He is buried in the Communal Cemetery extension at Outtersteene near Bailleul. He was a corn salesman before the war and did some part-time acting. He left a widow, Mabel and four children.
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.
Rflmn. Herbert Robinson
British Army 4th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Birmingham
(d.10th May 1915)
Pte. Horace Edward Robinson
British Army 2nd Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
from:Primrose Hill, Castleton, Yorks
(d.28th Mar 1918)
Col.Sgt. J. Robinson
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Shotton Colliery
J Robinson was demobbed in 1919
Rflmn. J. A. Robinson
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
(d.1st September 1916)
Rifleman Robinson died, aged 24, on 1st September 1916 and is buried in Ration Farm (La Plus Douve) Cemetery Annexe, Grave II.C.26.
He was the husband of Jane Robinson of 2 James Street, Harryville, Ballymena, Co. Antrim and the son of Robert and Martha Robinson, also of Ballymena.
L/Sjt. Jack Alexandra William Robinson
British Army 1st/5th Btn. Bedfordshire Regiment
from:Ampthill
(d.17th August 1915)
Lance Serjeant Jack Alexandra William Robinson, son of Mrs. Hannah Robinson Hymus, 18 Bryn Road, Clydach, Swansea: born, lived and enlisted in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. Served with the 1st/5th Bedfordshire Regiment (service no.3035).
He was killed in action on 17th August 1915 age 23 years at Gallipoli and is commemorated on Helles Memorial, Turkey. He is remembered on both The War Memorial and The Alamada, St. Andrews Church, Ampthill.
Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
Pte. James Temple Robinson
5th Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment
from:Jarrow
(d.7th December 1915)
James Temple Robinson, Private 13384, enlisted Jarrow in October 1914 and served in the 3rd Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment. He died age 19 on the 7th December 1915 and is remembered on the Palmer Cenotaph also at Doiran Memorial in Greece. His medal card records the award of the 1915 Star, War and Victory Medals. He was formerly in the Royal Garrison Artillery no. 48785. Update Although recorded above as the 3rd Battalion , it was the 5th Battalion which went to Gallipoli as part of the 11th Division.
James was born in Jarrow 1896, son of Thomas and Melita Robinson nee Dawson of Jarrow. In the 1911 census the family is living at 3 Wilberforce Street, Jarrow with his father Thomas(49) a Cooper (dry goods) for a chemical company and his mother Melita Annie(47) married for 22 years with 6 children, 5 of whom are living at home. Amy(17) is a domestic servant, James (14) is an apprentice cabinet maker in the shipyard and the other three are at school with Henry Oliver(12), William Carlton(9) and Sarah(5).
3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment.
August 1914 : in Dorchester. A depot/training unit, it remained in UK throughout the war.
- 5th (Service) Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment.
- Formed at Dorchester in August 1914 as part of K1 and moved to Belton Park (Grantham), initially attached as Army Troops to 11th (Northern) Division.
- 8 January 1915 : transferred to 34th Brigade in same Division.
- Sailed from Liverpool on 3 July 1915, going via Mudros to land at Suvla Bay on 6 August 1915.
- 16 December 1915 : evacuated from Gallipoli and went to Egypt via Mudros.
- Moved to France, arriving Marseilles 9 July 1916.
- 11th Division in 1915
- Embarkation took place at Liverpool from 30 June, with much of the Division sailing on the Aquitania and Empress of Britain.
- Mudros was reached by Divisional HQ and 32nd Brigade on 10 July.
- On 6-7 August 1915 the Division landed near Lala Baba at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli.
- On 19/20 December 1915 the Division withdrew from Gallipoli and moved to Imbros.
Sgt. James Blythe Robinson MM
British Army 2nd Btn., A Coy. West Yorkshire Regiment
James Robinson was with 2nd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment when it was called back from Malta in September 1914. He embarked for France with the Regiment on 4th November 1914 - arriving in Le Havre on 5th November. James served in action in France from 13th November 1914 until wounded by gunshot in the lower body in the Battle of Albert in July 1916. He was treated at the 3rd Casualty Clearing Unit on 2nd of July. Above and beyond usual service medals James was awarded the Military Medal for his bravery in the field - notification appearing in the London Gazette in November 1916. James survived the war and lived in England until his death in 1968.
Pte. James Robinson
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Redcastle
(d.23rd June 1915)
Private Robinson was the son of Mrs C. Robinson of Tullynavin, Redcastle.
He is buried in the south west boundary of the Drung Catholic Churchyard, Co. Donegal, Ireland.
Pte. James Robinson
British Army 10th Btn. Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Londonderry
James Robinson was my great Grandfather. As I heard the story, he was found in No Mans' Land with wounds to his leg and a German officer pointing a pistol at him. Records show he had suffered leg and arm wounds. He was taken prisoner and repatriated according to Red Cross files dated 2nd of September 1916.
Pte. James "Robbo" Robinson MM.
British Army 17th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Heywood, Lancashire
James Robinson is my grandfather who I never met and I am currently researching his life. I would love to find out what he did to be awarded the Military Medal.
L/Cpl. Jesse Richard "Roddy" Robinson
British Army 12th Btn. D Coy. York and Lancaster Regiment
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