OLIVER HOPE ROBERTSON
Oliver is not remembered on the war memorial at Christchurch Park.
Born: 1890, 102, Christchurch Street, Ipswich.
Died: 28th March 1918; age 28; KiA.
Residence: St. Leonard’s, East Sussex.
Enlistment Location: Hastings, East Sussex.
First Date of Entry Therein: 24th May 1917 – 23rd August 1917 – France.
Second Date of Entry Therein: 2nd February 1918 – 28th March 1918 – France.
Rank: Rifleman; Service Number: 555525.
Regiment: London Regiment, 16th (County of London) Battalion, Queen’s Westminister Rifles.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Memorial Reference:
Bay 10.
Pas de Calais,
France.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Henry Robertson, of 38, Bromley Avenue, Bromley, Kent.
CENSUS
1891 102, Christchurch Street, Ipswich.
Oliver was a year old and living with his parents & siblings.
Henry Robertson, 41, an Artist in Water Colour – own account, born Liverpool, Lancashire.
Hamilton Campbell Robertson (nee Barclay), born Auldearn, Nairnshire, Scotland.
Ludovic Vander Meulen Robertson, 9, born Ipswich.
Pauline Robertson, 6, born 102, Christchurch Street, Ipswich.
1 cook.
1 nurse.
1901 71, Thorpe Road, Norwich, Norfolk.
Oliver was 11 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
Henry, 52, an Artist in Water Colour – own account.
Hamilton, 51.
Ludovic, 19, an Undergraduate – Queens’ College, Cambridge.
Pauline, 16.
1 general domestic servant.
1911 ‘Redcot’ Linton Road, Hastings, East Sussex.
Oliver was 21 years old, an Undergraduate – Cambridge University. He was living with his parents & sister.
Henry, 62, an Artist – Painter in Water Colours.
Hamilton, 61.
Pauline, 26.
1 general domestic servant.
Soldiers’ Effects to Caroline Lucy.
HENRY ROBERTSON:
https://suffolkartists.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=538
https://fold.cm/read/timknight/henry-robertson-british-painter-XXAeEkkc
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