BORN CHATHAM 16/07/1898. SON OF LT. RICHARD ALEXANDER, RE’S & LATE ANNIE URRY, OF 73 NEWSTEAD STREET, HULL, AND GOSPORT, HAMPSHIRE, UK.
A FORMER ENGINEER STUDENT. SERVED IN THE EAST RIDING ROYAL ENGINEERS AND TRANSFERRED TO THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE DIED ON 27/04/1918, AGED 20.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE HULL TECHNICAL COLLEGE MEMORIAL. RECORDED ON THE EAST RIDING ROYAL ENGINEER, MEMORIAL TABLET, AT HULL MINSTER.
HIS PROBATE ADDRESS WAS 106 HARDY STREET, HULL . HE LEFT £68 IN HIS WILL TO HIS FATHER.
HE DIED ON 27/04/1918, AGED 20 AND IS BURIED AT DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “MAY HIS REWARD BE AS GREAT AS HIS SACRIFICE FATHER, SISTER, STEP-MOTHER”
First name:
ROBERT ALEXANDER
Regiment:
Rank:
1st Lieutenant
Date Died
27/04/1918
Place died:
Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No.1, Somme, France
Age:
20
106, HARDY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
