Robert H W – Durant – Great Western Railway – Private – 04/10/1915

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Title

Robert H W – Durant – Great Western Railway – Private – 04/10/1915

Initials / forenames

Robert H W

Surname

Durant

Railway company

Great Western Railway

Military unit

Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), 8th Battalion

Military rank

Private

Military number

3138

Railway department

Goods Department, Poplar

Railway job

Vanguard

Date died

04/10/1915

Magazine reference

Great Western Railway Magazine January 1916, p15. Photo: February 1916, p53

Memorial

Valenciennes (St Roch) Communal Cemetery

Notes

Aged 17. Durant had been in the GWR service from September 1912. He was wounded at Loos on the 25th of September 1915 and died shortly after.

Information source

St Paul's Cathedral Order of Service 1919, Great Western Railway Magazine (image and research contributed by STEAM: Museum of the Great Western Railway), Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Date entered

03/05/2017

Last updated

03/05/2017

Citation

“Robert H W – Durant – Great Western Railway – Private – 04/10/1915,” Fallen Railwaymen, accessed May 17, 2024, https://fallenrailwaymen.omeka.net/items/show/57108.