Born Helensburgh, Fifeshire, Scotland, 1896. Son Robert Warnes (1864-1939) and Ann Harrison Hope (1871-1953), of Earles Cottage, East Halton, Lincolnshire. Son of a Train Driver, the family were widely travelled.
Robert Hope Warne was living in Hull at the outbreak of war. Possibly at this address, where the only Warne is listed in the Absent Voters Records. He worked as a number taker for the Immingham Dock, Traffic Department, on the Great Central railway. He enlisted at Hull Central Hall with his brother George Edward Warnes, on 14/12/1914. He served in the 12th East Yorkshire Regiment, the 3rd Hull Pals Battalion. He served in Egypt and France. He was killed in action, on 13/10/1917, aged 21. He is buried at Roclincourt, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. His army effects were left to his mother, Ann. His death was reported in the Great Central Railway Journal, Dec 1917, p.104 – British Army, Railwaymen Died In The Great War, National Railway Museum.
His brother, Private, George Edward Warnes, 11/1320, 11th East Yorkshire Regiment, was killed in action, on 12/04/1918, aged 20, and is buried at Ploegsteert, Arrondissement de Mouscron, Hainaut, Belgium. His death was reported in the Hull Daily Mail, on 27/10/1917. Their youngest brother Frederick Warnes died in 1916, aged 17. Their Parents had lost three sons during the war. They left sisters, Edna, Annie and Edith and little brother, Albert who was 9 years old when the war ended.
