De Ruvigney Roll of Honour Vol 3 page 182
Robert Mack was born on the 24th June 1893 at Reston, Berwick, the eldest son of David Mack of High House, Alnwick, Northumberland, and his wife Christina, daughter of Archibald Gray.
Robert was educated at Rennington and Embleton, and was a clerk with the North Eastern Railway at Backworth.
He enlisted on the 28th September 1914, and served in France and Flanders from the 21st November 1915.
He was killed in action near Furnes on the 2nd October 1917.
De Ruvigney Roll of Honour
[The 17th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (17 NF) was raised by the North Eastern Railway at Hull in September 1914 and became a Pioneer battalion in January 1915. In June 1915 the battalion moved to Catterick where it joined 32nd Division as the divisional pioneer battalion. The division embarked for France in November 1915 and the next six months were spent in the Somme sector around Albert, Bouzincourt and Meaulte. The battalion took part in the opening battle of the Somme at Thiepval and its actions are described in detail. In October 1916 it left the division and joined GHQ Railway Construction Troops until the end of August 1917. It then rejoined the division at Nieuport on the North Sea coast for a couple of months before again joining the Railway Troops. In May 1918 the battalion was transferred to the 52nd (Lowland) Division, which had just arrived on the Western Front from Palestine, and remained with it as Pioneer Battalion to the end of the war].
Robert Mack is remembered in Alnwick on A11.03, in A11.09 page 15, on A11.21, A11.27, and in A11.56 page 35, and on the York Railway War Memorial
