Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History BookFlanders, and was killed in action at Festubert, 24 Dec. 1914; _unm._ His commanding officer, Lord Northland (since killed), writing to his mother, said: "You have indeed lost a gallant son and the regt. a promising non-commissioned officer." =ROBINSON, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 11024, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, only _s._ of William Robinson, of Egmanton, near Tuxford, co. Nottingham, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Henry (and Ann) Taylor; _b._ Egmanton aforesaid, 28 March, 1896; educ. there; was engaged on farm work; enlisted in the Coldstreams after the outbreak of war, 15 Aug. 1914; went to France 23 Nov. following, and died of wounds 25 Jan. 1915; _unm._ Buried near the Church at Cuinchy. [Illustration: =Frederick Robinson.=] =ROBINSON, JOSEPH COOPER=, Private, No. 21021, 9th (Service) Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, yst. _s._ of John Robinson, of Sunderland, Driller in Shipyard (_d._ 1895), by his wife Margaret (13, Brougham Street, Southwick-on-Wear), dau. of Michael Hedley, of Sunderland; _b._ Monkwearmouth, co. Durham, 28 Nov. 1889; educ. Board School, Southwick; was employed in the Sunderland Bottle Works; enlisted, 24 Aug 1914; trained at Grantham, and was killed in action at Chocolate Hill, Gallipoli, 21 Aug. 1915; _unm._ The same day his great friend and school fellow G. Hepinstall, with whom he had been brought up, enlisted and gone to the Front, was killed some distance away. [Illustration: =Joseph Cooper Robinson.=] =ROBINSON, JOSEPH ROBERT=, Private, No. 10947, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Robert Robinson, of East Barkwith, co. Lincoln (now on active service with the 3rd Lincolnshire Regt.), by his wife, Jane, dau. of Joseph Tuxford; _b._ Welton, co. Lincoln, 20 April, 1889; educ. East Barkwith; was a Guard on Great Central Railway at Lincoln; enlisted in the Coldstreams after the outbreak of war, 11 Aug. 1914; went to France 24 Nov. following, and was killed in action at La Bassée 14 June, 1915; _unm._ Buried there. His three brothers are all now (1916) on active service. =ROBINSON, LAUNCELOT ALEC (LANNIE)=, Assistant Paymaster, R.N.R., yst. _s._ of Capt. John Charles Robinson, of Armadale, Parkstone, late Union Castle Steamship Co., by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of Alexander Bell; _b._ Acton, 28 July, 1885; educ. Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, High Barnet, and Banister Court, Southampton; was a purser in the Union Castle Steamship Co.; appointed Acting Assistant Paymaster, R.N.R., 25 Aug. 1914; joined H.M S. Bulwark 24 Sept. following, and was killed on active service when that ship was blown up off Sheerness, 26 Nov. 1914; _unm._ [Illustration: =Launcelot Alec Robinson.=] =ROBINSON, LAWRENCE LEONARD=, A.B., J. 1445, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =ROBINSON, LESLIE JOHN=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., only _s._ of the Rev. William Robinson, Vicar of East Haddon, co. Northants, by his wife, Hannah, dau. of Jonathan Hall, of Hud Hey, Haslingden, Lancs.; _b._ Holme Vicarage, Westmoreland, 7 Oct. 1883; educ. Kelly College, Tavistock; and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Northamptonshire Regt., 22 April, 1903, and promoted Lieut. 28 Jan. 1905, and Capt. 1 Dec. 1910; as Assistant Adjutant and Musketry Instructor at Colchester from 1908 to 1911; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Nov. 1914 to 12 March, 1915, on which latter date he was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle. While at Kelly College he was in the Cadet Corps; won the shooting cup three times, and shot at the Devon County Volunteer meeting in 1901, when his college won the Public Schools' Challenge Shield. At Sandhurst he was in the athletic team against Woolwich, and when with his regt. in Malta he won the Officers' Cup for shooting. He _m._ at St. Giles', Oxford, 21 Aug. 1913, Louisa Sophia, dau. of the late Walter Merivale, M.I.C.E., and had two children: Anthony Leslie and Diana Merivale, twins, _b._ 6 March, 1915. [Illustration: =Leslie John Robinson.=] =ROBINSON, REGINALD WILLIAM=, Capt., 5th (Service) Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 3rd _s._ of Sir Richard Atkinson Robinson, of 59, Hazlewell Road, Putney, S.W., J.P., D.L., Chairman of the London County Council (1908), by his wife, Jane Wilson, dau. of Thomas Thistle; _b._ South Kensington, 15 June, 1880; educ. St. Paul's School, and the Royal School of Mines, South Kensington; was for a time a member of the London Scottish Volunteers; joined the C.I.V. in 1901, and served with them in the South African War (medal); and was later a Lieut. in the Rhodesian Volunteers; obtained a commission as temporary Lieut. in the Inniskilling Fusiliers after the outbreak of war, 4 Oct. 1914, and was appointed Capt., 5th Service Battn., 3 Dec. following; left for Gallipoli, July, 1915; took part in the landing at Suvla Bay, and was killed in action there 15 Aug. 1915; _unm._ =ROBINSON, THOMAS WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., I.C. 329), 194399, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =ROBINSON, WILLIAM HENRY=, Corpl., R.M.A. (R.F.R., A. 0580), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =ROBSHAW, THOMAS ARTHUR=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4429), S.S. 1494, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =ROBSON, JAMES HERBERT=, Private, No. 4620, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Robert Robson, of 68, High Street, Langley Moor, co. Durham; _b._ co. Monmouth; enlisted 11 March, 1902; obtained his discharge, 22 Sept. 1905; re-enlisted after the outbreak of war, 13 Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 25 Oct. 1914. =ROBSON, JASPER LEEMING=, Private, No. 6567, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of the late Matthew Jasper Robson, of West White Hill, Kirkwhelpington, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Farmer; _b._ Hunmanby, co. York, 22 April, 1887; educ. County Council School, Felling-on-Tyne, and privately; enlisted 18 Jan. 1906; served in Egypt 29 Sept. 1906 to 12 Feb. 1909, and with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., from 12 Aug. 1914, and died a prisoner of war in No. 1 Reserve Hospital, Hanover, Germany, 14 Oct. 1914; _unm._ Buried there. =ROBSON, OLIVER AUGUSTUS=, Private, No. 12396, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest and only surviving _s._ of Oliver Robson, of 9, Colchester Road, Leyton, co. Essex, Postal Servant, by his wife, Louise Harriett, dau. of Augustus Bourlet; _b._ Bristol, 20 Oct. 1894; educ. there and in London; was employed in the Post Office Telephone Department; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Coldstreams, 15 Sept. 1914; went to France to join his Battn., 9 Jan. 1915; was reported missing after the fighting at Cuinchy on the 25th of that month, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on that date; _unm._ [Illustration: =Oliver Augustus Robson.=] =ROBSON, RICHARD ERNEST=, Coy. Sergt.-Major, No. 2448, 2nd Bat |