Private Herbert John Robinson
Number: 9694
Company: 45th (Dublin) Company, 13th Battalion
ENLISTMENT
Date: 6 January 1900
Place: Newbridge
Age: 23 years 2 months
Trade of calling: None
Place of birth: In the Parish of Dublin, near the Town of Dublin, in the County of Dublin
Family: Single.
Previous military service: Yes, resigned commission
Description: Height 5' 6". Complexion fair, eyes blue, hair dark.
Religion: Other Protestant
ACTIVE SERVICE
Date to South Africa: 13 March 1900
Campaigns: South Africa 1899-1901
Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal, Cape Colony and Orange Free State clasps.
DEATH
Date: 1 June 1900
Place: Lindley
Cause: Wounds sustained on 27 May
Commemorated: Robinson is buried in the Lindley Cemetery (see image below). He is commemorated on the Lindley Cemetery Memorial and the Yeomanry Kop Memorial at Lindley, and and on the St Patrick's Cathedral Memorial in Dublin.
Among those who fell at Lindley was Trooper Herbert J. Robinson. Although not a Donegal man himself he was closely connected with that county. We understand he was grandson to the late Major Thomas Patterson, of Gortlee, Letterkenny, and grand nephew of the late Mr. John R. Boyd, of Ballymacool, and nephew of Dr. Patterson, of Ramelton. He was only twenty-four years old. (Londonderry Sentinel, 14 June 1900.)
Wicklow People, 7 July 1900
Wicklow News-Letter, 27 October 1900
Window erected in Delgany Christ Church, Glendalough, County Wicklow, in honour of Private Robinson
This page last updated 14 July 2024.