BIRCH+R.+C.

 Birch, Robert Charles, Private, 15312, 6th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment Born Bottisford, Rutland Enlisted Mansfield, Nottinghamshire Resided Langwith, Derbyshire Killed in action 12th April 1917 aged 28 Commemorated on the Arras Memorial

1911 Census A colliery surface platelayer Husband of Elizabeth, and father of Lillian Birch. Son in law of William Staton, a coal miner ripper, of 101, Scott Street, Whaley Thorns, Derbyshire



(Photograph from the Derbyshire Courier, 29th May 1917, and article from the Derbyshire Times, 26th May 1917)


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