Name
Robert George Carrington
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/03/1918
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
32592
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HAUTMONT COMMUNAL CEMETERY
I. A. 17.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, Holy Saviour Church War Memorial, Radcliffe Rd., Hitchin, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
His home was at 14, Benslow Lane. Hitchin and his parents were Mr and Mrs G. Carrington. He was born in Hitchin and enlisted there.
Before being called up he was a tailor by trade and during his time in the
trenches he did many tailoring jobs for his comrades.
Wartime Service
Robert was given the Regimental Number T/5363 in the Notts & Derby Regiment, but was later posted to the 5th Battalion of the Ox & Bucks with the Number 32592. He went to France in July 1916 and was wounded. Between the 21st and 23rd March 1918 he was reported missing and became a prisoner of war in a German P.O.W. hospital where he died. He is known to have been suffering from a severely septic thigh wound. The information concerning his death came from Captain Marshall Gilbertson of Hitchin who was a prisoner in the same area.
He was buried in Plot 1, Row A, Grave 17 in the Hautmont Communal Cemetery in France.
Additional Information
On the Hitchin War Memorial, he is shown as ‘G’ Carrington.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, Jonty Wild
