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Robert William Abbs

Robert William Abbs
Robert William Abbs CREDIT: Downham Market Gazette

A Private with the 8th Battalion, Robert died on 19th of August 1916 at the age of 27. 

Robert was born at East Runton, Norfolk, about 1889, a son of Robert Abbs. No other details of Robert’s early life are known. He cannot be conclusively identified on any civil record. Note: there is no actual evidence that his first names were anything other than Robert William, and this are confirmed by the marriage register entry at Saint Margaret’s Church.  

On 12 December 1915 Robert married Agnes Nellie Elizabeth Aldred at Saint Margaret’s Church, Lowestoft. Robert was a soldier and they both gave their address as 41 Arnold Street. Later Agnes lived at 42 Princes Road and married William Hopkins. 

Robert enlisted in the Army at East Runton. He joined the Norfolk Regiment, service number 32053. He was posted to France to join the 8th Battalion.

Robert was wounded around May 1917 and his name appears in the War Office Daily Lists reproduced in the British press in June 1917, probably at Neuville Vitasse, France. It seems that Robert recovered and returned to the Battalion.

On 10 August 1917 the 7th battalion was involved in operations at Inverness Copse and Zillebeck Bund, near Ypres. Robert was wounded and taken to one of the Field Ambulances near Dickebusch, where he died form his wounds on 17 August.   

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Lived at

Robert Abbs
42
Princes Road
Lowestoft
United Kingdom

CountryOfService
United Kingdom
BranchService
Army
Regiment
Norfolk Regiment
ServiceNumber
32053
Burial/Memorial
Belgium
THE HUTS CEMETERY
II. B. 18.

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