Harry Robinson
Date of birth: 9.2.1892
Date of death: 31.5.1916
Area: Knottingley
Regiment: Royal Navy
Family information: Son of George and Charlotte Robinson nee Bedford
Rank: Stoker 1st Class
Service number: K/23302
War Service
Harry Robinson Joined the Royal Navy and was serving on H.M.S. Queen Mary during the Battle of Jutland, in which he lost his life at the age of 24. He died on 31st May 1916 and is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website states that he was the brother of Mrs A Owen of 11, Vale Terrace, Ferrybridge.
Pontefract Advertiser 1st July 1916:
“SMITH, George
ROBINSON, Harry
On Sunday the Vicar (Rev A H B Lees) conducted a service at the Parish Church in memory of Private George Smith who was killed in action in Mesopotamia and of Stoker Harry Robinson, of HMS “Queen Mary”, who was a member of the choir before enlisting. The Vicar, in a sympathetic address, pointed out the satisfaction which the villagers generally ought to feel that the proportion of losses amongst their friends and relatives was so small compared with the large number who had gone on active service. The organist (Mr F A Ellis) played Beethoven’s “Dead March”.”
Family Life
Harry Robinson was born on 9th February 1892. He was the son of George Robinson and his wife Charlotte nee Bedford. They had married on 17th December 1882 at St Andrew’s Church, Ferrybridge.
In the 1911 census he was shown as a Colliery Platelayer, living at Fishergate, Ferrybridge with his mother (now a widow) and siblings.
Portsmouth Naval Memorial