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Corporal ALEXANDER ROBERTSON

Service Number: 12/220
Regiment & Unit/Ship

York and Lancaster Regiment

"A" Coy. 12th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 July 1916

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Pier and Face 14 A and 14 B.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info M.A. Edin., B. Litt. Oxford. Son of the late Robert Robertson, M.A., F.R.S.E. (Headmaster, Edinburgh Ladies' College). Lecturer in History, Sheffield University. Author of "Life of Sir Robert Moray." He was also one of the "Soldier Poets." Author of book of poems called "Comrades," also "Last Poems.".
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