Robert Donald McInnes

Forename(s):
Robert Donald

Surname:
McInnes

Initial(s):
R D

Service Number:
Officer

Rank:
2nd Lieutenant

Regiment:
Lancashire Fusiliers, 17th (Service) Battalion (1st South-East Lancashire)

Died:
30/03/1918

Aged:
36

Buried:
Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery & Extension

Service History:
Served for a time in the Northumberland Fusiliers. Joined the Reserve, & was called up on the outbreak of war in August 1914.

Served with the Expeditionary Force in France & Flanders from January 1916. Returned home in March 1917, & after a period of training at St. John's College, Oxford, was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant to the 17th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers in October 1917. Returned to France the following month, & died near Albert on 30 March 1918 from wounds received in action there on that day.

His Commanding Officer wrote:

'He was with me in the front line a few hours before he was hit, & I was struck with his courage & cheerfulness in a very trying situation.'
(Source: 'UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour'; Part 4; Page 121)

Background:
Born 28 December 1881, at Amble, Northumberland, the only son of Robert Green McInnes, by his late wife, Ellen (daughter of David Harrison).

Educated at Amble & Herriott Watt College, Edinburgh.

Before service in the Army, was in the Printing Trade.

He married at Amble, 22 May 1915, Eleanor (daughter of Thomas Spowart), of Marine Road, Amble.
(Source: 'UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour'; Part 4; Page 121)

Local Memorial:
Amble, Dovecote Centre Amble War Memorial (Source: newmp.org.uk)