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Pte. Robert Telfer
British Army 20th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
(d.27th Jul 1916)
Robert Telfer died aged 32, he was born in Sunderland in 1884, son of William and Jane Telfer (nee Hindhaugh). In the 1911 Census Robert Telfer, age 27, a Shop Assistant, is recorded as living with his Widowed Mother Jane Telfer & his siblings at 43, Primrose Crescent, Tulwell, Sunderland. He enlisted in Jarrow, at the time he lived in Heaton Newcastle and was employed as Boot Shop Manager in Jarrow.
Robert is buried in Tancrez Farm Cemetery and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow