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Robert William Calvert
British Army Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Bedlington, Northumberland
(d.29th Oct 1914)
Robert Calvert was born in Bedlington, Northumberland in 1888. He was the youngest of four children of Robert & Elizabeth Calvert (nee Forman) and was my Great, Great Uncle a brother of my Great Grandfather George Henry Calvert. Both brothers fought in the First World War, Robert was killed in Ypres aged 26 years young on the 29th October 1914 and his elder brother George was killed in 1918 at the age of 39. Upon hearing the news of George's death, his wife Frances (nee Hare), my Great Grandmother, had a heart attack and died aged 37, leaving my Grandmother Mary and her sister Constance as orphans aged 18 and 14 respectively. Frances had already lost two brothers in the conflict, both of whom were also in the Northumberland Fusiliers. She suffered greatly through the loss of these brave men.
- Robert Calvert - died 29th October 1914 in Ypres, her brother in law
- John Hare - died 27th September 1915 in Loos, her brother -12th Bt Northumberland Fusiliers
- Aaron Hare - died 29th March 1918 in Arras, her brother - 1st Bt Northumberland Fusiliers
- George Calvert - died in 1918, her husband.
- Frances's daughter Mary, my grandmother,became a WAAC in WW1 aged 17, she also fought in WW2 as a Sergeant in the RAF and was involved in a logistics operation for the D Day Landings in Normandy in 1944.
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