World War 1
Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1
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Robert George Weightman
Forename(s):
Robert George
Surname:
Weightman
Initial(s):
R G
Service Number:
290499
Rank:
Private
Regiment:
Northumberland Fusiliers, 1/7th Battalion Territorial Force
Died:
26/10/1917
Aged:
25
Buried:
Tyne Cot Memorial (Tyne Cot Cemetery)
Service History:
Enlisted at Alnwick, Northumberland.
Died, France & Flanders.
N.B. The UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 (available via Ancestry.co.uk) records the date & place of death as 'On or since... Death presumed'.
Background:
Born about 1892 at Shilbottle, Northumberland, the son of Robert George & Mary Weightman, of Grange Colliery.
In 1911 Weightman was living at Bilton Banks, Lesbury with his parents, & working as a Miner.
Husband of Jane Ellen Weightman, of 6, Garden Terrace, Grange Colliery, Shilbottle. The UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects 1901-1929 mentions a child, Mary.
Local Memorial:
Shilbottle, St. James' Church
Shilbottle War Memorial