BORN HULL 1900. SON OF JAMES & MARY ANN WHARTON, OF 76 REDBOURNE STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL. AN APPRENTICE PRINTER. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 26/04/1918, AGED 18. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HDM 22.05.1918
HE IS BURIED AT CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME, SOMME, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR THOSE HE LOVED A MOTHER’S LOSS BUT HEAVEN’S GAIN.”
First name:
ROBERT
Military Number:
85264
Rank:
Private
Date Died
26/04/1918
Place died:
CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME, SOMME, FRANCE
Age:
18
76 REDBOURNE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
