Colin Boyd has provided the following:
Robert was born on 9th August 1886. He was working as a foreman in a printing works living with his sister, Jane Reed Douglas at 214, Station Road, Wallsend when he enlisted in the Royal Naval Division on 25th January 1915. His parents were James and Jane of Percy Main.
He joined the Howe Battalion on 20th August 1915 in Gallipoli and was hospitalised with Dysentery on 30th September 1915.
Robert died in the 15th General Hospital in Alexandria on 7th October 1915.
Robert Pattinson Thornton is remembered in Wallsend on W7.04, W7.19 page 20 and W7.21
