Herbert Healey Robinson
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Herbert Healey Robinson was born in 1886 at Thorney Cambridgeshire and was the son of William a groom gardener and later labourer in an iron foundry and Elizabeth Robinson, (née Pearson). William was born in 1855 at Swayfield Lincolnshire, Elizabeth Pearson in 1856 at Stamford Lincolnshire. Married at Stamford in 1880, the following children - Emma Elizabeth b.1881 Stamford, William Henry b.1883 Stamford, Edith Maud b.1885 Stamford, Herbert Healey b.1886 Thorney, Cambridgeshire, May Nellie Healey b.1889 Ellim Cambridgeshire, Harry Charles Healey b.1891 Lenton, George Frederick b.1896 Lenton and Sidney Pearson b.1898 Beeston. The family moved to Nottingham around 1891, lived in Lenton and by the time of the 1901 census were living at Dallas York Street in Beeston. In 1911, William, Elizabeth and Sidney lived at 26, March Street, Nottingham. Emma Elizabeth and her four children Frederick Eaton, Stanley Hector Byrne, Gertrude and Robert family lived at 4, Meadow View, Beeston.
Herbert Healey Robinson married Katherine (Kate) Knight at Nottingham in 1913.
Daughter : Edna M. Robinson was born around 1914.
Herbert Healey Robinson joined the Army at the start of World War One.
Landed in France on 4th November 1914.
He was listed as wounded on three separate occasions, on the 1st October 1914, again on the 9th November 1916 and finally on the 16th February 1918.
He was entitled to wear three wound stripes under Army Order 204 dated : 6th July 1916.
the first wound may have been a training accident as he didn't land in France until the 4th November 1914.
CWGC records have him as serving with the 3rd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, Notts. & Derby Regiment, but other records suggest that he had served with both the 2nd and the 1st Battalions as well, as this soldier was wounded three times, depending on the severity of the wounds and recovery times he may well have served with all three Battalions at various times, sadly his service records were amongst those destroyed or burnt so it is not possible to trace his movements accurately.
He died at the Nottinghamshire County War Hospital, Radcliffe On Trent Military Hospital, better known locally as the Saxondale Hospital.
Buried in Nottingham General Cemetery.
Grave Reference : 03546.
CWGC Reference : 7519398.
Nottingham Evening Post 4th April 1919:
ROBINSON. – Died at Radcliffe Military Hospital, April 2nd, [1919] after 4½ years' service, Pte. H. Robinson, 1st Sherwoods, the beloved husband of Kate Robinson. Military funeral Tuesday, 12 noon.”
Obituary courtesy of Jim Grundy and his Facebook pages Small Town Great War Hucknall 1914-1918.
His Brother, Sidney Robinson attested on 25th August 1916 at Nottingham, he served with the 1st/4th Battalion, West Riding (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment, and died of wounds 18th April 1918.
He is buried in the Haringhe (Bandaghem) Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Grave reference : Plot : II. Row : F. : Grave : 10.
Herbert Healey Robinson
Buried in Nottingham General Cemetery.
Photo by Murray Biddle