Name
Phillip James Robinson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/11/1914
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
2636
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 54 and 56.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Grammar Memorial - now Richard Hale School, Hertford, St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware, Christchurch Memorial, Ware, Ware Town Memorial, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Cheshunt memorials
Pre War
Born in 1892 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire son of Robert and Lottie Robinson later of 66 Vicarage Road, Ware.
He was a Sunday School teacher and member of the choir in St Mary’s Church, Ware.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford, entered France on 6 Nov 1914 and was killed in action by a shell while resting having just come out of the front line on the Menin Road.
He was one of the first members of the Hertfordshire Regiment to die in WW1.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild
