Name
Walter Castle Robinson
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/07/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
2677
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
16th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AUCHONVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY
II. E. 8.
France
Headstone Inscription
LOVED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM ONLY "GOOD NIGHT" BELOVED NOT "FAREWELL"
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
Walter Castle Robinson was born in 1894 in Bishop's Stortford to Joseph and Martha Robinson.
On the 1911 Census he was living with his father and sister Hephzibah at 15 Jervis Road, Bishop's Stortford and working as a printers' assistant. His father was a harness maker. The family were living at Nursery Road, Bishops' Stortford in 1901. He had two half siblings, Frederick William Robinson (born 1875) and Hephzibah Knight Robinson (born 1883).
His father was a widower when he married Walter's mother Martha Castle in 1891. Joseph's first wife Hephzibah was 11 years older than Joseph and died in 1889 aged 50. Walter's mother died in 1907.
Wartime Service
Walter enlisted in Whitehall, London on 23 August 1915 into the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex) Regiment Public Schools Battalion. He gave his occupation on enlistment as Clerk. He was posted to the BEF on 15 March 1916. He died of wounds received in action probably during the Battle of Albert.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £6 4s 7d. His father, Mr J Robinson of 15 Jervis Road, Bishop's Stortford, Herts, ordered his headstne inscription: "LOVED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM ONLY "GOOD NIGHT" BELOVED NOT "FAREWELL"".
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
