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215775Pte. James Robson
British Army 1/7th Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Jarrow
(d.15th September 1916)
James Robson, Private 292197, enlisted at Wallsend and served in the 1st/7th Battalion , Northumberland Fusiliers. He died age 21 on the 15th September 1916 and is remembered at Jarrow Library also at Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 10B, 11B and 12B. His medal card records the award of the War and Victory Medals as well as his being missing presumed dead. It also records previous regimental numbers as 5/3363 and 7/6095 implying previous service in the 5th and 7th Battalions.James was born in Jarrow 1895 son of Thomas Robson, 45 Commercial Road, Jarrow and the late Maria Robson nee James. In the 1911 census James is 16 years old, a Coal Hawker, living at 57 Back Commercial Road, Jarrow with his father Thomas(46) a self employed Gardener and his mother Maria(47)married for 16 years, 3 children of which two survived, so the other child is living elsewhere.
- 1/7th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers
- August 1914 : in Alnwick. Part of Northumberland Brigade, Northumbrian Division.
- April 1915 : landed in France.
- May 1915 : became 149th Brigade, 50th (Northumbrian) Division, in France
- 12 February 1918 : transferred to 42nd (East Lancashire) Division and converted to Pioneer Battalion.
- 50th (Northumbrian Brigade in 1916
- The Battle of Flers-Courcelette*
- The Battle of Morval*
- The Battle of the Transloy Ridges*
- * the battles marked * are phases of the Battles of the Somme 1916
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