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In Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France, is the Commonwealth War Grave of 22/620 Private Robert Hedley, serving with the 22nd (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, who died 04/04/1917.
Margaret Allison says that he lived at 120 Newbiggin Road, Ashington, and was aged 34 when he died.
Soldiers Died in the Great War states that he was born in Boldon, Durham and enlisted in Ashington.
Morpeth Herald 27/04/1917 carries a brief obituary:
Mr Thomas Hedley, of Killingworth, builder and contractor, received news on Saturday last of the death of his brother, Robert Hedley, a private in the N.F., who was killed in France. Previous to enlisting, Private Hedley was employed by the Seaton Burn Coal Company.
Robert Hedley is remembered in Ashington on A17.01 (A17.27) and A17.43