BORN MOTHERWELL, LANARKSHIRE, 1889, SON OF DAVID AND AGNES ATTWOOD, AT 54 BROOMHILL STREET, OFF CANAL STREET, GLASGOW. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. RESIDENT IN HULL. HE MARRIED IN GLASGOW, ON 25/02/1910 & LIVED AT 9 REID STREET, GLASGOW. HIS WIFE, ISABELLA O’NEIL AND THEIR FOUR CHILDREN LIVED AT 2 PROVIDENCE TERRACE, WALKER STREET, HULL (THIS ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS). EMPLOYED AS A PAINTER. HE SERVED IN THE LANARK YEOMANRY BEFORE WW1. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 7.5 INCHES TALL, 140 LBS, 36.5 INCH CHEST. HE ENLISTED HULL, 30/11/1914, JOINING THE 4TH EYR, AGED 25 YEARS AND TWO MONTHS. QUICKLY PROMOTED TO CORPORAL AND ACTING SERGEANT, HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE 13TH EYR HULL PALS. SERVED IN EGYPT. POSTED TO FRANCE 08/03/1916. KILLED IN ACTION ON 16/07/1916, AGED 27. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, ISABELLA. SHE AND HER FOUR CHILDREN RETURNED TO GLASGOW AFTER HIS DEATH.
Attwood, Robert
First name:
ROBERT
Regiment:
Military Number:
13/896
Rank:
Sergeant
Date Died
16/07/1916
Place died:
Laventie Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, Nord, France
Age:
27
2 PROVIDENCE TERRACE, WALKER STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
