Regiment: Gloucestershire Regt.
Died: 10 September 1916 aged 32 in France. Died of wounds received at Guillemont.
Battle: Battle of the Somme. Cemetery: Corbie Communal Extension PLOT 2 D 3
Born 20 April, 1884. Son of Arthur Robinson, Lawrence Weston, Henbury, Bristol.
Modern IV—II. House Prefect. House XI Cricket.
Merchant.
Husband of Ruth Douglas Robinson, of Helenslee, Dumbarton.
Great War, Private 1914, afterwards Captain 12th Batt. Gloucester Regt.
'As a boy at School he pursued the even tenor of his life, not marked by any great school honours, but one in which he was very popular. At the outbreak of war he joined the Gloucester Regiment, in which he held the commission of Captain. He died of wounds received in France on September 10th.' (Malvernian, Nov 1916).
'Director in the firm of E. S. & A. Robinson, Bristol; enlisted as a Private at the commencement of the war of 1914, and was quickly promoted Corpl.; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 12th Gloucester Regt. in Nov. 1914; obtained his Captaincy 16 Nov. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France from Nov. 1915; was shot through the lungs 3 Sept., while leading his company at the taking of Guilllemont on the Somme battle-front, and died in a Clearing Hospital, France, 10 Sept 1916, of his wounds.' (De Ruvigny).