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Pte Robert "Little Bob" Thrower
British Army 8th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
from:Sutton on Hull
(d.25th Sep 1915)
Little Bob, Robert Thrower was my 2x great Uncle - the brother of my Great Gran Maggie Bayston. He is memorialised at St James' Church, Sutton on Hull War memorial.
Bob was born in 1886 in Thorngumbald, East Riding of Yorkshire. The family don't know why he ended up in the Seaforth Highlanders when his cousins all joined the East Yorkshire Regiment. He was known to the family as Little Bob as his father was also Bob Thrower.
He died on Saturday 25th September 1915 during the first day of the battle for Loos. I recall my Great Gran had a letter that explained that Little Bob died under heavy enemy machine gun fire as his company "gloriously relieved the village of Loos".
I'd be delighted to hear from anyone with additional information.