BORN MANCHESTER 1884. SON OF ALICE A SPINKS, AT 18, BONFIELD TERRACE, WALCOTT STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS). HE HAD TWO SISTERS, BERTHA AND ALICE SPINKS. HE WAS THE NEPHEW OF J & J H SPINKS (Hull Daily Mail 11/4/1916).
HE WAS A BOLIER MAKERS ASSISTANT, LIVING WITH HIS STEP SISTER, BERTHA SPINKS, AT 5, THORSBY AVENUE, FLINTON STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS).
ENLISTED HULL. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 2 NOV 1914. SERVED AS A SERGEANT, WITH THE 1ST NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 27 MAR 1916, AGED 32.
COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES MENIN GATE MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
First name:
ROBERT
Military Number:
8255
Rank:
Sergeant
Date Died
27/03/1916
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
32
18, BONFIELD TERRACE, WALCOTT STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
