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Pte. Victor Clarence Robins
Australian Imperial Force 10th Battalion
from:Adelaide, South Australia
W. Robins
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery
My husband has a large (1.6" diam.) silver wristwatch in his collection. He says it is from the period of WW1. On the back of the case is roughly engraved (by an amateur): 177310 WRobins RGA. We assumed that RGA meant Royal Garrison Artillery all our searches on online free sites have failed to find any records of this man. The manufacturers information inside the case says that it was made by the Philadelphia Watchcase company and is guaranteed 925 fine sterling. There are Hallmarks but I cannot match them to any charts. Please can anyone help? Did the British Army issue American watches at this time?
Pte. A. H. Robinson
British Army 9th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.10th May 1916)
Pte. A. H. Robinson was executed for desertion 10/05/1916 and buried in Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, France.
Sgt Albert Robinson
British Army 23rd Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.11th Feb 1917)
Robinson, Albert. Serjeant 19/1682, Killed in action on 11th February 1917.
Remembered on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belguim, on Panel 2.
Serjeant Robinson was attached to 23rd Btn Northumberland Fusiliers (Tyneside Scottish).
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Rflmn. Albert William Robinson
British Army Rifle Brigade
from:Bridlington, Yorkshire
My great grandfather, Albert William Robinson, was born in Bridlington, Yorkshire, England on 12th March 1878. Albert was said to be one of the first motor mechanics in England, and during his army career with the Yorkshire Rifle Brigade, he was a driver for army officers during his tour of Egypt and France in WW1. Albert's war records were lost in the 1941 fires during WW2, but I do have his pension paper (stamped weekly) and photos of him in uniform. On 24th of September 1915, Albert was at Tring Mill in Hertfordshire, from where he sent two postcards to his daughter Nellie. He mentions going to Uxbridge on the following Sunday.
On 18th August 1903, at the Registry Office, Long Lane, Bridlington, he married Victoria Adelaide Robinson. During the war years Victoria ran their home 'Ailsa Craig' in Bridlington as a boarding house. Albert and Victoria had three daughters: Mabel Mary born 7th July 1904, Nelly born 25th April 1906, and Phyllis born 26th October 1909. Albert, Victoria and their three daughters immigrated to Australia from 'Ailsa Craig', 8 Clarence Road, Bridlington, Yorkshire, England. The family arrived at Fremantle, Western Australia on the 'Orvieto' on 31 March 1921. They settled on a farm in Mt Barker, WA and planted an apple orchard. The property was on Wilson Road, south of Kendenup. The property is now known as 'Noojee', mainstay is now sheep.
I have been told that Albert and his family came to Australia as he had health problems with his lungs after being gassed during the war. His doctors felt the climate in Australia would be healthier for him. Unfortunately, this was not to be, as Albert died on 25th March 1935 from carcinoma of the stomach and cachexia. He was only 58 years old. Albert is buried in the Mt Barker Cemetery.
Obituary in 'Denmark & Mt Barker Record' for Monday 8th April 1935: 'The death occurred at Mt Barker on Monday, March 25, of Mr Albert William Robinson. The deceased was 58 years of age and was born at Bridlington, Yorkshire. He came to this state 14 years ago and settled at Kendenup. Subsequently he sold that property to acquire another at Forest Hill. This was later disposed of, and he again returned to Kendenup. He was a quiet living man and a respected citizen. The funeral took place at Mt Barker on Tuesday, where he was interred in the Methodist portion of the Cemetery. The coffin was draped with the Union Jack and medals gained while the late Mr Robinson was a member of the British Forces. The pall bearers were Messrs. H Lock, A H Ahern, J Wragg, and K J Honey, while the service was conducted by the Rev N Inwood. Mr Robinson is survived by his widow and two married daughters.'
Albert idolised his three daughters, and must have been devastated when his first born Mabel Mary died in December 1934, four months before his own death. Albert's wife Victoria died on 27th September 1939, and is buried in the Old Albany Cemetery.
QM Mjr. Albert Edward Robinson OBE MC
British Army King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Winchester
Pte Albert John Robinson
British Army Cambridgeshire Regiment
from:Northampton
Pte. Alfred K Robinson
Army Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regt
I have come across some old medals at my mums house that are not from my family and am trying to return them to the next of kin of Pte Robinson. Does anyone know of his family?
Gdsm. Alfred Sydney Robinson
British Army 2nd Btn. Grenadier Guards
from:Lenham, Kent
(d.29th Apr 1916)
Pte Archdale Saunders Robinson
British Army 8th Btn Bedfordshire Regiment
from:Great Barford, Bedfordshire, England
(d.19th of April 1916)
Archdale Robinson was my great uncle. I never knew him but have always been fascinated by him and his short life. He does cause some confusion as he appears to be registered in some areas of the military records as 'Archibald' but his name was definitely Archdale.
Archdale served with the Bedfordshire Regiment 8th Battalion in WW1. There is also a family story that he was actually only 16 when he enlisted, fudging his age and therefore only being 18 when he died in France, 19th of April 1916, and not the 21 years officially reported. Either way, it was a tragic thing repeated so many times.
He has no known grave and it saddened me beyond belief when I learned that often these 'unknown grave' soldiers drowned in shell holes, or suffocated in them if they were not killed outright. His name is on the gate at Lille in Belgium, that is all.
He was a farm labourer and need not have gone to war but wanted to do his bit for King and Country. He went from riding the big shire horses to being killed in the defense of his country and he will always be my hero, along with all of those men and boys that never came home again, be they British or not.
Stkr1stClass. Arthur Robinson
Royal Navy HMS Cockatrice
from:West Hartlepool
(d.7th Nov 1918)
Arthur Robinson MM & bar.
British Army 22nd Btn Durham Light Infantry
Pte Austin Robinson
British Army 11th Btn Cheshire regiment
from:Seacombe
(d.11th March 1916)
Cpl. B. Robinson
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
B Robinson served with the Tyneside Irish and the West Yorkshire Regiment
Benjamin Robinson
British Army
Cpl. Benjamin Robinson
British Army 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment
from:Easton Royal, Wilts
(d.25th Sept 1915)
Pte. Bert John Robinson
British Army 2nd Btn. Suffolk Regiment
(d.8th October 1918)
Bert Robinson died on the 8th of October 1918, aged 27 and is buried in the Naves Communal Cemetery Extension in France.
Sgt. Charles Robinson
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Consett
Charles Robinson was wounded in December 1916
L/Cpl. Charles Henry Robinson
British Army 8th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Hook
(d.8th October 1918)
Pte. Cyril Robinson
British Army 9th Btn. London Regiment
from:Corringham, Essex
(d.26th Sep 1917)
Cyril Robinson is commemorated on The Great War Memorial in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Corringham, Essex. I am researching all the names recorded and Cyril is one of them.
He was born in Ashford, Kent in 1895 and was living there with his family in 1911 when the census was taken. He must have moved to Corringham after this time. When he died a War Gratuity of Ă‚ÂŁ4 14s 5d was paid to his widow Kathleen. I have found a marriage of a Cyril Robinson to a Kathleen M. Walter in Newark, Nottinghamshire in 1917.
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
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