HARRISON, ROBERT

 

 

Source

CWGC

SDGW

Uttoxeter Advertiser

Other

Parents

 Robert Harrison

 

 

 

 2

Where born

Bentillin Staffordshire

 

Yes

 

 
Bentlee Staffordshire       2

When born

 About 1883

 

 

1b

 4

Address

Self: Willslock Farm

 

 

1a

 2

Parents: Formerly Willslock Farm, but living in Marchington, Staffordshire at the time of Robert’s death

 

 

Announcement of his death (19 December 1917 edition)

 

South Wingfield, Derbyshire (wife at the time of his death)

 

Yes

1a

 2

Spouse

Yes

 

 

1a

  

Children

3

 

 

1a

 2

Employment Before Joining up

Worked with his father on Willslock Farm

 

 

1a

 2

Where enlisted

Alfreton, Derbyshire

 

Yes

 

 

Regiment & Unit

Lincolnshire

Yes

Yes

1a

 2

2nd Bn

Yes

Yes

 

 2

Rank

Private

Yes

Yes

1a,1b

 2

Service Number

38075

Yes

Yes

 

 2

Date of Death

2 December 1917

Yes

Yes

1a,1b

 

 2

Age at time of death

34

 

Yes

1a

 

Where Killed or died

France/Flanders: Ypres salient - 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele) - Cambrai

 

 

Roll of Honour

 

How he died

Missing

 

Yes

    
  Killed in Action    

1a

2

Location of Grave or Memorial

Tyne Cot Memorial for the Missing Panel 35 to 37 and 162 to 162A.

 

Yes

 

 

 5
  Uttoxeter Town War Memorial (Market Place)       2
  St. Mary’s Church War Memorial, Uttoxeter       5

Awards

 

 

 

 

 

 Before the war he worked with his father on the farm at Willslock

Robert had been in the army for about seven months when he was killed[1a].

He left a wife and three children, one of whom he had never seen[1a]
Robert Harrison has no known grave and his name is recorded on a panel in the Tyne Cot Memorial. The Memorial Panels run along the walls which surround the back of Tyne Cot Cemetery.

The Tyne Cot Cemetery and the other cemeteries in the Ypres area contain many graves of unidentified soldiers. He may be one of them, or he may still lie where he fell, somewhere beneath the surrounding fields