Service Details
Name:
 ROBERTSON
Given Name:
 KEITH FORBES
Initials:
 K F
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Rifle Brigade
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Unit:
 6th Bn.
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Unit 2:
 attd. 1st Bn.
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Date of Death:
 1916-08-27
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Date of Birth:
 1889-02-08
Age:
 27
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Klein Zillebeke, Flanders, Belgium
Additional
Information:
Son of Nora Forbes (formerly Robertson), of Marlows, Caterham, Surrey, and the late George Robertson. Husband of Irene Lois Robertson. Born St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia. Educated Haileybury College, Hertfordshire OTC 1903-1908; Trinity College, Cambridge University OTC 1908-1909. Served with 4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment 1911; emigrated to South Africa; served as Captain & Adjutant with Durban Light Infantry in GSWA 1914-1915; travelled to England to re-enlist with the 6th Battalion, Rifle Brigade; attached to the 1st Battalion. Commemorated on the Durban Light Infantry & the Durban Cenotaph WWI Memorials & on his brother's gravestone in St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Caterham, Tandridge District, Surrey, England and on Haileybury College WWI Memorial, Hertford Heath, Englandref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918. His brother Captain Ronald Robertson, Highland Light Infantry died in service on 13 September 1917
Commemoration
Country:
 Belgium
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Locality:
 Ieper, West-Vlaanderen
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Cemetery:
 PERTH CEMETERY (CHINA WALL)
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Grave Reference:
 I. H. 46.

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