Robert – Marper – Great Central Railway – Private – 18/11/1916

Robert – Marper – Great Central Railway – Private – 18/11/1916

Robert

Marper

Great Central Railway

Lincolnshire Regiment, 8th Battalion

Private

40022

Traffic Department, Northorpe

Lad Porter

18/11/1916

The Great Central Railway Journal January 1917, pg. 144; [Photo and Obituary - The Great Central Railway Journal February 1917, pg. 165]

Varennes Military Cemetery, Somme

Aged 19, son of Councillor Frederick Dixon and Edith Mary Marper of Northorpe, near Gainsborough. The obituary in the February issue of The Great Central Railway Journal notes that Robert was wounded on the 18 November 1916 and died in a French hospital a day later. He enlisted on the outbreak of the war, passed through the Dublin Riots and at the early age of 19, lost his life for our country.

St Paul's Cathedral Order of Service 1919, The Great Central Railway Journal, Commonwealth War Graves Commission