216833 Pte. Robert Handel Mendelsohn Griffiths British Army 3rd Btn. Border Regiment from:Dorchester (d.29th Aug 1914) Robert Handel Mendelsohn Griffiths was a Boy Soldier who trained as a Musician at Gordon's Boys Home, Woking, Surrey (which was a home for children from impoverished families). This is also where he enlisted. He and a fellow Border Regiment Boy Soldier James O'Brien 10400 were travelling to join their battalion on August 29th 1914, but they never made it. They died as a result of leaning out of the window of their troop train compartment whilst it rapidly passed through Lamphey Station. They were hit by an open carriage door. Griffiths died instantly, and O'Brien died in Tenby Cottage Hospital a few days later. They were both 17 years old, and are both buried in Pembroke Dock Military Cemetery.
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