Malvern College First World War Casualty

Lieutenant Edwin Winwood Robinson

Photo of Edwin Winwood Robinson
House and time at Malvern: No 9, 1903 - 1905.

Regiment: 5th Lancers.
Died: 26 October 1914 aged 27 in Belgium. Killed in action near Ypres.
Battle: First Battle of Ypres. Cemetery: Voormezele Churchyard SP MEM

Son of Colonel Herbert J. and Agnes E. Robinson, of Moor Wood, Cirencester, Glos., and Charlwood, Surrey, b. 1887.
Upper IV A—Lower Shell.
5th Lancers (from Special Reserve) 1911; Lieutenant 1914.
Great War, "D" Sqdn. 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers.

He was fond of hunting, polo, and steeplechasing.
He went to France with his regiment on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action whilst his regiment were being used as infantry.
IWM biography

Service record: WO 339/7913

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