Robert Allen Fiske

A Bandsman with the 14th (King’s) Hussars, Robert died on 8th of July 1918 at the age of 18. 

Robert was born at Lowestoft on 25 May 1900, a son of Charles and Laura E. Fiske. Robert was baptised at Saint Peter’s Church, Kirkley, on 1 July 1900 and his family lived at 29 Grosvenor Road. Robert attended Kirkley School from 16 September 1903. By 1911 Robert’s father had died and his family lived at 28 Kirkley Cliff Road. Later his mother lived at 2 Beccles Road.   

Robert enlisted in the Army, as a boy soldier, at Bury St. Edmund’s, in early 1916. Robert joined the 14th (King’s) Hussars. In 1918 Robert was serving with the 5th Reserve Cavalry Regiment, based at Scarborough and in June 1918 he was attached to the Infantry Command Depot at Catterick, possibly because he was a Bandsman. 

He was admitted to the Military Hospital, Catterick Camp, on 30 June 1918, suffering from pneumonia. He died, at the hospital, at 7.45 p.m. on 8 July.