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Private Thomas William Scales ROBINSON.
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Photo : the Great Ayton Family History Society.
Private Thomas William Scales ROBINSON., 62139
9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Thomas W. Robinson, of Rye Hill
Cottage, Great Ayton, Yorks. Killed 8 November 1918. Aged 19.
Born Darlington, Enlisted Stokesley, Resided Great Ayton.
Buried NOYELLES-SUR-SAMBRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY.
The following biographical information is courtesy of the Great Ayton Family History Society;-
Thomas Robinson (Snr) was born in 1873 at Great Ayton. He married Mary Hannah
Scruton (born1874) at Middlesbrough in 1898. He was a woodman working on the
Cleveland Lodge Estate, Great Ayton. They lived at Linehill Cottage (also
known as Ryehill Cottage) and had 9 children, the first being Thomas William
Scales Robinson, born 12 March 1899, at Darlington.
Thomas William Scales Robinson enlisted at Stokesley, which is about 2-3 miles
from Great Ayton.
At the time of his death he was in the 9th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment.
He was aged 19 when he died.
The battalion was in Italy for part of the summer of 1918, but towards the
end of the summer they were sent back to France, arriving at Abbeville on
17 September 1918.
A week later they were placed in billets between Amiens and Albert and then
took part in the steady drive of the Germans out of France in the Battle of
The Sambre.
Having looked at maps of the immediate area, it would appear that the German
peace delegation passed fairly close to where he was on 7 November 1918..
Thomas lies only about 3-4 miles from Wilfred Owen, who died on 4 November
1918.
The family received the telegraph re his death on Armistice Day. His Mother
took it, unopened, to his Father, who was working at Cleveland Lodge.
He is commemorated at Great Ayton Parish Church.
Thomas William Scales Robinson is buried in Noyelles-Sur-Sambre Communal Cemetery, and photographs of his headstone (courtesy the Great Ayton Family History Society) are shown below;-
Thomas William Scales headstone is the second from the left.
Thomas William Scales headstone. To the right is the headstone of an Unknown
Yorkshire Regiment soldier.
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