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Personal data

• Name ROBSON
• Initials RI
• First name RICHARD IVAN
• Place of birth Shankhill
• Country Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Last residence Belfast
• Family Son of Elizabeth Robson, of Glenoe, Bangor, Co. Down, and John Robson; a brother and two sisters (one called Nora)
• Education Oundle School Office Training Corps (1904 - 1909) and Ulster Volunteer Force training
  
• Profession Student
• Extra info On the memorial of SAINT COMGALL’S PARISH CHURCH, Bangor

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment September 1914
• Service number 18701
• Rank Captain
• Medals M C
• Regiment and unit 15th Bn. Royal Irish Rifles
• Division - Brigade 107th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 36th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Joined 15th Service Battalion RIR as private14 September 1914; trained Clandeboyne Camp NI promoted 2nd Lt 16 October 1914;
  to France on 3 October 1915

Death

• Type of wounds Multiple shell wounds, died at n° 10 CCS
• Date of death 6 August 1917
• Died at the age of 26
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XV - A - 9

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