Name
Leslie George Duncan Robertson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/09/1919
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
128979
Royal Fusiliers *1
45th (Service) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARCHANGEL MEMORIAL
Russia
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Grammar Memorial - now Richard Hale School, Hertford, Stanstead Abbotts Village Memorial, Memorial plaque in St James’ Church, Stanstead Abbotts
Pre War
Born on 29 Sep 1899 in 47 Talbot Road, Ealing, London and baptised on 26 Nov 1899 in St John’s Church, Ealing and son of Ernest Duncan T and Alice Emily Robertson (nee Hitch).
In 1911 he was living in Roydon Road, Stanstead Abbotts and attended Hertford Grammar School. He had two brothers Kenneth and John and two sisters Linda and Marjorie. His father was a decorator.
Wartime Service
Joined the Army at the Recruiting office in Whitehall, posted to Bedfordshire Regt and then transferred to Royal Fusiliers as Private 128979.
Joined 45th Battalion when formed in 1919. Sent to Russia as part of the North Russia Relief Force. On 02/08/1918 occupied the port of Archangel in Northern Russia, by the end of that month there were almost 35,000 Allied troops in Russia, who fought throughout the winter and into the following spring. It was decided to withdraw Allied troops by the middle of 1919 and evacuation began in September. Leslie’s unit were engaged against Bolshevik forces near the village of Tulgas. He was killed in an enemy counter attack on 14/09/19 and is buried in the village of Chamova.
Additional Information
*1 Possibly more correctly, (County [or City] of London)(Service) Bn. London Regiment.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Terry Collins
