The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private G Robertson

Photograph by “Claude Laignel”

Private George ROBERTSON, L/6558, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 12th October 1914.

Born Bethnal Green, Middlesex, son of Edward & Elizabeth Robertson.

25th December 1906, St Jude, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, George Robertson, age 21, bachelor, labourer, 75 Quinns Buildings, Russia Lane, father Edward Robertson, coster monger, married Alice Robertson, age 20, spinster, (born 9th September 1885), paper sorter, 22 Ann? Street, father William Garrett, decorator.

Children - Elizabeth Louisa Robertson, born 18th April 1907; George Edward Robertson, born 25th January 1910, baptised 11th February 1910, St Jude, Bethnal Green, son of George, (labourer), & Alice Robertson, 44 Quinns Buildings, Russia Lane, died age 1, 1911 March, Bethnal Green Registration District.;

1911 Census - 44 Quinns Buildings, Russia Lane, Bethnal Green - George Robertson, head, age 25, married, general labourer, colour factory, born London, Middlesex; Mrs Robertson, wife, age 25, married 4 years, 4 months, 3 children, 1 still alive, paper sorter, worker, born London, Middlesex; Elizabeth Robertson, daughter, age 4, born London, Middlesex; Joseph Perry, boarder, age 28, single, general labourer, paper manufacturers, worker, born London, Middlesex.

Children - Alice Robertson, born 9th October 1911; Arthur Edward Robertson, born 8th April 1913;

Enlisted Stratford, Middlesex; 12th October 1914, posted BEF.

Children - Phoebe Edith Robertson, born 17th April 1915, baptised 2nd May 1915, St James the Great, Bethnal Gree, daughter of George, (lamplighter), & Alice Robertson, 146 Toyes Buildings.

Buried at Philosophe British Cemetery, IV. P. 7., Mazingarbe, France.

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