| Notes: | MMP. Awarded the Victory and War Medals. First served abroad (5a) East Africa, 19/8/16. Shown as (3) Egypt, 9/8/16 to 29/3/18 and France 6/7/18 on medal roll page B 186. He enlisted in the MMP 15/5/16 age 24.5 years, occupation Ploughman, home address: 8 Coton Road, Nuneaton. Attested 11/12/15, Army Reserve 12/12/15 to 17/5/16, Home 18/5/16 to 18/8/16, East African Exp Force 19/8/16 to 29/3/18, En Route 30/3/18 to 20/4/18, home 21/4/18 to 5/7/18, BEF 6/7/18 to 25/10/19, class Z reserve 30/11/19. 17/3/17 Dares Salam, 8/3/18 South Africa, Malaria, 1/8/18 1 Army, 15/11/18 3 Traffic Control Sqn, 23/4/19 BAOR.
12/4/1915 he married Elizabeth Mary Larkin, spinster at Nuneaton Registry Office, they had one child Elsie Margarita, 25/7/1916. 3/11/1919 he was awarded £2 at the Fovant No. 1 Demobilization Acquittance Roll.
William Robbins.
Extract from the Coventry Evening Telegraph 12 April 1965. GOLDEN WEDDING CELEBRATION.
Mr. and Mrs. William Robbins, of 14, Home Park Road, Nuneaton, today celebrated their Golden wedding with a family dinner party.
They were married during the First World War when Mr. Robbins, who had been a policeman in Nuneaton for four years joined the Military Mounted Police.
After the war Mr. Robbins went into the building trade and worked for two Nuneaton firms until he retired at the age of 70. |
