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Pte. Robert Pattison
British Army 5th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Hartlepool
(d.23rd May 1915)
Robert Pattison was my grandfather. He engaged for 4 years' territorial service aged 21 on 13 March 1909 at West Hartlepool. He re-engaged for 2 further years on 8 March 1913.
His period of embodied service began on 5 August 1914. He signed an agreement to serve outside the UK at Darlington on 18 Sept 1914. On 29 March in Hartlepool he registered my mother's birth. He embarked from Folkestone on 17 April 1915.
He was killed in action on 23 May 1915 and was buried between Sanctuary Wood and the Menin Road. (The story told by the family is that he was killed by a sniper.) His grave is now not known and his name appears on panels 36 and 38 of the Menin Gate Memorial. (It may be that his grave was destroyed during the Battle of Mount Sorrel in 1916.)
My grandmother was awarded a pension of 18s. 6d. for herself and her two children in December 1915.