Yorkshire Regiment
Derek Johnstone has provided the following information:
Thomas Robinson Routledge was born about 1883 at Barrington (some records show Cowpen) near Bedlington Northumberland. His parents were Robert Routledge and Elizabeth Ann Robinson who married in 1893, registered at Morpeth.
By 1891 his father Robert Routledge, a coal miner hewer, was widowed. His family was living with his brother at Sleekburn Colliery with two daughters but Thomas is not shown in the census at that time for some reason.
The 1901 Census shows Thomas living at Routledge Buildings, Bedlington with his family where he was 17 years old and working in the coal mines as a hewer. His father Robert is still a widower, age 43. In the house were Mary A. aged 16, and Lizzie J aged 15. This record shows Thomas born at Cowpen, not Barrington. However, Barrington is recorded on the military records.
In 1911, Thomas was a boarder at 13, Millbank Terrace, Bedlington in the house of Margaret Ann Robinson who would probably be a relative of his late mother. All indications are that Thomas was single; his effects on his death went to his father Robert.
Thomas enlisted at Bedlington while living at 13, Millbank Terrace, Bedlington and went to France on 26th August 1915. The military records show Thomas Robinson Routledge was formerly with the Northumberland Fusiliers with the service number 10252.
Thomas Robinson Routledge is remembered in Bedlington on B15.02 and B15.26 page 52
