BORN HULL 1898. SON OF THOMAS WILLIAM & HARRIET MARIA ABOVE. LISTED AS EX 712 KILLED – HDM 21/12/16. IN THE TRINITY REGISTER.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE CLARENCE ROBINSON 220021. Born in April 1897, Clarence was the fourth of six children to Thomas and Harriet Robinson. His father died in 1899 and the family moved in with Clarence’s grandparents at 12 Harrow Street, Hessle Road, Hull. Times must have been pretty tough and money short. Whether is was this that drove him to enlist, or whether it was the quest for adventure we’ll never know; it could easily have been the same patriotic fervor which drove thousands to their deaths before him; or, he may not have chosen to enlist at all, and received his conscription notice, the one he dreaded coming, but which he knew would one day catch him up. Either way, Clarence joined the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment in the trenches of the Western Front and was killed in action on 27th March 1918 as he bravely stood in the way of the German Spring Offensive. His body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial; he was 20 years old.
