In Aeroplane Cemetery, Belgium is the Commonwealth War Grave of 325096 Private Robert Grey, serving with the 1st/8th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, who died 04/09/1917.

He was the son of William Anson Grey and Anne Margaret Grey, of Longhirst Kennels, Morpeth.

Colin McMillan has provided the following:

Robert Grey was born in or about 1894. He was the fourth child and third son of William Anson Grey, a Canada born grocer and provision merchant, and Margaret Grey who was born in Blagdon. At the time of the 1901 Census when Robert was 7, his parents were 41 and 36. The other children were William Grey jnr, who was 16 and a grocer’s assistant, Hilda (15), Thomas (13), Joseph (9), George (5), Florence (3) and Anson (1). All the children were born in Morpeth and at the time the family were living at River View, Morpeth, a short terrace of houses at the east end of Dark Lane.

By 1911 the family had moved to 7 Buller’s Green. William jnr was no longer with them and another child, Violet Margaret Grey (5), had joined the family. Robert, by then 17, was working as a dentist’s assistant.

He enlisted at Newcastle and for some time served with the Northumberland Fusiliers with the service number 365656. However he was 325096 Private Grey, Robert of the 1st /8th Lancashire Regiment when he was killed in action in the France and Flanders area of the Western European Theatre of War on 4th September 1917.

Morpeth Herald 21/09/1917 carries an obituary:
MORPETH MAN KILLED IN FRANCE
Mr and Mrs W.A. Grey, Grange House, Morpeth, have received official news that their fourth son, Private Robert Grey, Lancashire Fusiliers, was killed in action in France on the 4th inst.

Captain Sutton, in giving the sad news, said that on the night of the 3rd inst. Private Grey was one of a carrying party taking rations up to the men in the front line. The party was caught in heavy firing by the enemy, and suffered a number of casualties, including its officer and the deceased who was killed instantaneously.

Private Grey was 24 years of age, and joined the army in 1915. Before joining he was a dentist with Mr Halls, dentist, Morpeth, and was well known and respected in the town.

This is the third son that Mr and Mrs Grey have lost through the war and they have another three sons in the Army. Much sympathy is felt for the bereaved parents.

His brothers George and Joseph also died in WW1

Robert Grey is remembered in Morpeth on M17.01 M17.02 M17.09 and M17.29