W. Bro. Revd. David T. Youngson, PPAG Chaplain, Northumberland has submitted the following:
The information given below in respect of some of the brethren is the best possible conclusions from Lodge records, Grand Lodge records & Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
94 Phoenix Lodge
Year of Warrant 1755
Freemasons Hall Queen Street Sunderland
Temporary Lieutenant James Horan ROBERTSON
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
8th Battalion
The son of Matthew and Annie Robertson of 9 Woodlands Road, Darlington. A Marine Engineer he was Initiated on the 3rd June 1914; Passed 8th July 1914 and Raised on the 2nd September 1914. He was killed in action during the Battle of the Somme on the 18th July 1916 aged 29. Remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, Pier and Face 10A
James Horan Robertson is remembered at Darlington on D40.034 and D40.044
