The Teesdale Mercury 27/11/1918 reports:
"Mrs. R. Chatt, of Coronation Street, has received a letter from the Garrison chaplain, Arras, stating that her husband, Sapper Robert B. Chatt, had been accidentally killed. All ranks speak of deceased in the highest terms of praise. He was a locomotive driver, and the engine he was controlling ran off the line into trees, and he was killed instantly. He did not suffer great pain. Sapper Chatt was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Chatt, of Startforth, and enlisted into the Northumberland Fusiliers shortly after the outbreak of war, and went through the Gallipoli campaign, taking part in the Suvla Bay landing. Coming to France after the evacuation of the peninsular, he transferred in the Royal Engineers, and met his death at the hour the armistice came into operation."
The following appeared in the Births, Marriages and Deaths column:
"Chatt – Accidentally killed at Arras, France, on November 11th 1918, in the 24th year of his age, Sapper Robert Bulmer Chatt, beloved husband of Ida Chatt, 11 Coronation Street, Barnard Castle, and only son of Joseph H. and Margaret Ann Chatt, Startforth. "They miss him most who loved him best." Memorial service in Startforth Parish Church on Sunday, December 1st at 10.30 a.m."
Acknowledgements: Catherine Ryan
He is remembered in Startforth on S150.01, in Barnard Castle on B135.04 and B135.20 and in the North Eastern Railway Roll of Honour
