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819L/Cpl. Joseph Robson
British Army 4th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Sunderland.
(d.10th May 1915)
My great great Uncle was in WW1 and died in 1915, Lance Corporal Joseph Robson, 4th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps. Aged 22 he was killed on 10/05/1915. He was the son of Mrs. Sarah Turnbull (formerly Robson), of 35, Palmer st., Sunderland, and the late Mr. E. Robson. His name is listed on the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial. if you know any infomation please e-mail me. Thank you ever so much
254337CSM. Joseph Myers Robson DCM.
British Army 10th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
from:91 Salisbury Street, Blyth
(d.20th October 1918)
Joseph Robson was my great grandmother's brother.
624Lt -Col. Lancelot Robson DSO.
Army Durham. Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Hartlepool
Lt Col Robson was the fire commander of Heugh Battery and also the Battery Medical Officer, being a Doctor in civilian life. He was at home in Hartlepool when the Bombardment began and rushed to the Battery on his bicycl, leaving his breakfast half eaten, when gunfire first sounded. The journey was not an wasy one as the townsfolk were filling the streets, some fleeing away from the coast, others running towards the sea to look at the spectacle.
"The guns were going by that time and the first thing that cheered me was the sight of the old battery dog barking away beside the guns! So then I knew that everything was alright" (Northern Daily Mail, 29th March 1935)
On reaching the lookout Robson found that the telephone lines had been brought down by the shelling, he had long argued that they should be routed underground, but he was relieved to see that the battery was acting under standing orders, as he could not contact his gunners to issue orders.
233150Pte. Matthew Robson
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Northumberland
(d.1st July 1916)
Matthew Robson is named on the Thiepval Memorial
300505Pte. Percy Blackwood Robson
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
served with 18th & 19th DLI
213284L/Cpl. Ralph Maddison Robson
British Army 20th Battallion Durham Light Infantry
from:60 Station Road, Easington Colliery, County Durham
(d.30th Sep 1916)
Ralph Maddison Robson, was born 30th June 1893 and died 30th September 1916 at the Battle of the Somme in France, age 23, bravely and with honor in defense of his Country & loved ones. A former Colliery worker at Easington Colliery, Ralph previously lived at 60 Station Road, Easington Colliery, County Durham with his loving family and parents.
221258Cpl. Robert Ramsey Robson
British Army 19th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Acomb, Northumberland
(d.22nd Apr 1918)
My Great Uncle attended Durham University, St.Cuthberts's College, he was a teacher at Barnard Castle. My family found some of his letters home. My Father visited Martinsart Cemetary a few years ago, to pay respects to his Uncle.
206842Pte. S Robson
British army 1/5th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
(d.2nd Nov 1917)
233151Pte. S. Robson
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Howden on Tyne
T Robson was discharged in 1917 Wounded
479Sjt. T. Robson
Army 2/7th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
215832Pte. T. Robson
British Army 14th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
(d.19th Dec 1915)
233152Lcpl. T. Robson
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Ashington
T Robson was wounded in 1916
1390Pte. Thomas Rutherford Robson
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.8th May 1915)
1391Pte. Thomas William Robson
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.8th May 1915)
215668Pte. Thomas Anthony Robson
British Army 2nd Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
from:Jarrow
(d.5th May 1917)
Thomas Anthony Robson, enlisted at South Shields and served in the 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. He died on the 5th May 1917 and is remembered at Jarrow Library and is buried in St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen. His medal card shows the award of the War and Victory Medals.
Thomas was born in Sunderland 1897 son of Sarah Jane Robson nee Roseberry of 28 William Black Street, Jarrow and the late William Robson. In the 1911 census William(46)is a forge labourer and Sarah Jane(41) has been married for 21 years with 8 children born one of whom died. Joseph(20)single, is a minder of blacksmiths forge and William(16) is a general labourer in a colliery yard. Four of the other children are of school age, Thomas(13), Ellen Jane(11), Sarah Jane(9)and Jane Ann(5). The youngest daughter is Mary who is 3 years old.
300179Pte. Thomas Robson
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
300599Pte. Thomas Wilson Robson
British Army 21st Btn Durham Light Infantry
21st DLI & att 257 tunneling coy & 18DLI
233942Pte. Thomas Henry Robson
British Army 12/13th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Fleming St. Gateshead
(d.29th May 1918)
243591Pte. Tom Robson
British Army 17th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps.
from:Dublin/Dover
My grandfather, Tom Robson, was born in Oldham, Lancashire, in 1882. He served in RAMC in South Africa between 1901-03 before returning to the UK, based in Mullingar Barracks in Ireland. There he met an Irish girl, Catherine Reilly, fell in love, married, left the Army, settled in Dublin as a cook/waiter and had 4 children (1 died aged 1) before rejoining RAMC to go to France in September 1914 with 17th Field Ambulance. A fifth child, my father Tom, was born in January 1915. His family continued to live in Dublin but moved to Dover some time after the Easter Rising in 1916. Tom returned from the war to father two more children in 1919 and 1926.
My father said his father never talked about his time in RAMC and was happy to live life with his family in Dover. I think he worked for some time as a cook/waiter on the cross-channel ferries. He died of lung cancer in a hospital in Manchester on Christmas Eve 1944, possibly having stayed with his extended family away from the 'front line' in Dover. Catherine was with him at his death.
My grandfather is not a hero in the recognised sense, but, to his family and like many who served, he is someone who did his duty when called upon despite his strong family commitments.
Any information about Tom's service would be welcomed by his family.
222328Pte. Walter DeFrece Robson
British Army 12th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.25th Sep 1915)
My Great Uncle, Walter De Frece Robson 11379, B Coy 12th Northumberland Fusiliers, was killed at Loos on 25th of September 1915
213006Pte. William Robson
British Army 8th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
(d.16th Aug 1917)
233153Pte. William Robson
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
William Robson went AWOL in 1915
300633Pte. William Robson
British Army 21st Btn Durham Light Infantry
Served with 18th DLI and 15th DLI
252901Pte William Robson
British Army 15th Btn Durham Light Infantry
from:West Hartlepool
(d.22nd Oct 1917)
254365Pte. William Robson
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Scots
from:Leadgate, Consett
(d.12th Oct 1917)
241451LS Lawrence Roche
Royal Naval Reserve SS Garmoyle
from:Ballyask, Kilmore
(d.10th July 1917)
Leading Seaman Roche was the husband of Mary Roche, of Ballyask, Kilmore.
He was 31 when he died and is buried about 2 yards North of the ruin in the Kilmore (Grange) Graveyard, Kilmore, Co. Wexford, Ireland.
237427Sgt. M. Roche
British Army 3rd Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers
from:Cloyne, Cork
(d.14th Dec 1918)
Serjeant M Roache was the husband Bridget Roche of Chapel St., Cloyne, Cork. He was aged 36 when he died and is buried Between ruins and South boundary of the Ballyncorra Graveyard in Co. Cork, Ireland.
233154Pte. Peter Roche
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Byker
Peter Roche was discharged in 1915
263388Pte T. Roche
British Army 1st Btn Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:9 Ryders Row, Off Copel Street, Dublin
(d.13th Feb 1917)
T. Roche of the 1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers lost his life due to gas poisoning.
235548Pte. George Rochelle
British Army 7th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment
from:8 Goscote Rd., Heath End, Pelsall, Walsall
(d.30th September 1916)
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