BORN WOLVES 1893. SON OF WILLIAM & ADA OXLEY. HUSBAND OF DOROTHY OXLEY, OF 171 , ST GEORGES ROAD, HULL. HE WORKED EIGHT YEARS, FOR MESSRS, DALTON, LAMBERT & CO, KINGSTON CHAMBER, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL COMMERCIALS, IN SEPTEMBER 1914. EX 542, 10TH EYR. SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE AND WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE 12TH/13TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS, IN MARCH 1918. REPORTED MISSING AND KILLED ON THE 12/04/1918. HE WAS AGED 25. “A MAN OF GREAT INTELLIGENCE AND UPRIGHTNESS OF CHARACTER. HE WAS HIGHLY RESPECTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM.” HDM 10/07/1919. *
HIS BROTHER, WILLIAM ELAM OXLEY DIED 1919 HULL.
First name:
ROBERT KNOWLES
Military Number:
64987
Rank:
Private
Date Died
12/04/1918
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
25
