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Guardsman Robert Fyfe Geddes
British Army Scots Guards
from:Ayrshire
Robert Fyfe Geddes was born 30 March 1891 in the civil parish of Auchenblae, Kincardineshire. His mother was Jessie Geddes and his father is not known.
On 17 May 1915, at age 24, Robert Fyfe Geddes enlisted in the Scots Regiment of Foot Guards (Scots Guards). Up to the time of enlistment, he had been employed at Glengall Asylum in Ayrshire as an attendant.
His WWI pension file shows that he was admitted to hospital with a gunshot wound in his left arm on 13 October 1916, and was discharged back to active duty. He was gassed on 14 September 1918 and admitted to hospital in Boulogne, France for treatment. He was evacuated to the UK in November 1918 and spent time in Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, which had originally been a workhouse. Robert’s Medal Index Card and the UK, WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920 show his rank of Guardsman with the Scots Guards and that he was entitled to the Victory Medal and British Medal.
After calling of the banns, Robert Fyfe Geddes married Annie Young on 05 February 1918 in Berryhill Toll, Civil Parish of Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. The marriage registration shows that Annie Young was born c. 1888, the daughter of Archibald Young, road surfaceman, and Annie Walker. Annie Young’s occupation on the marriage registration was “nurseâ€. Robert Fyfe Geddes and Annie Young had one daughter, Lily Young Geddes, born c. 1922.
Robert Fyfe Geddes died in 1971 in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire.
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