Colin Boyd has provided the following:
Robert was born on 1st April 1894 (see note below). He was working as a miner living with his wife, Ellen at Currells Buildings, New York, when he enlisted in the Royal Naval Division on 31st October 1914. This address was later changed to Harbottles Buildings, New York.
He joined the 3rd Platoon, "D" Company of the Collingwood Battalion on the 4th March 1915 and then transferred to the Hood Battalion on the 8th June 1915.
Robert was hospitalised with Dysentery in Gallipoli on 29th July 1915 and joined the Base Depot at Mudros on 1st April 1916 and then rejoined the Hood Battalion in France on 5th December 1916.
He received the Military Medal, gazetted on 26th March 1917 "for operations north of the Ancre". Robert was posted as being killed in action on 20th April 1917.
(Note: The CWGC have his age as 36 giving a birth date of 1881 which I think is the more likely. The 1901 Census gives his age as 20!)
Robert Allen Waugh is remembered in New York on N53.02 and N53.03
