Photo: Brian Chandler
In Rothbury Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:
In loving memory
of
Jessie Isabell Robinson
died 13th November 1962
wife of
Edmund James Robinson
killed in action 12th July 1916
also Winifred Robinson
their daughter
1912 – 1999.
At rest.
Edmund was born and enlisted in Newcastle upon Tyne. He served with the 16th Battalion and died of wounds received in action, aged 28 years.
Acknowledgements: Ron Carson.
Edmund James Robinson is remembered in the Battalion History page 130