Durham Light Infantry Records
Reference: D/DLI 7 Catalogue Title: Durham Light Infantry Records Area: Catalogue Category: Antiquarian and Composite Records Description: Individual Soldiers - surnames R: Rob
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- Durham Light Infantry Records
- Major-General Sir Frederick Spencer Wilson ROBB, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O. (Ref: Robb D/DLI 7/575/1-3)
- Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick De ROBECK (Ref: Robeck D/DLI 7/592/1-17)
- 50971 Captain Gerard Brian Chipchase ROBERTS (Ref: Roberts D/DLI 7/576/1-262)
- 18/944 Private William ROBERTS (Ref: Roberts D/DLI 7/577/1-7)
- Second Lieutenant George Dodd ROBERTS (Ref: Roberts D/DLI 7/946/1)
- 4467995 Lance-Corporal John Michael ROBERTSON (Ref: Robertson D/DLI 7/578/1-6)
- 3117 Private Kenneth ROBERTSON (Ref: Robertson D/DLI 7/579/1-18)
- R. ROBERTSON (Ref: Robertson D/DLI 7/580/1-2)
- Captain the Reverend Alexander George ROBINSON (Ref: Robinson D/DLI 7/581/1)
- 4459257 Private Dennis ROBINSON (Ref: Robinson D/DLI 7/582/1)
- Second Lieutenant Douglas Eric ROBINSON (Ref: Robinson D/DLI 7/583/1-2)
- Corporal J. ROBINSON (Ref: Robinson D/DLI 7/584/1-1(117))
- Quartermaster and Captain James Robert ROBINSON, M.B.E., T.D. (Ref: Robinson D/DLI 7/585/1-8)
- 21284 Private Joseph ROBINSON (Ref: Robinson D/DLI 7/586/1)
- 21189 Private W. ROBINSON (Ref: Robinson D/DLI 7/587/1-5)
- 139038 Captain Raymond Wilson ROBINSON (Ref: Robinson D/DLI 7/947/1-92)
- Records concerning the 13th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry (Ref: D/DLI 7/947/1-27)
- Records concerning the 30th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry (Ref: D/DLI 7/947/28-40)
- Records concerning training (Ref: D/DLI 7/947/41-61)
- Records concerning the Home Guard (Ref: D/DLI 7/947/62-75)
- Records concerning Prisoner of War Camps (Ref: D/DLI 7/947/76)
- No. 28 Prisoner of War Camp, Knight Thorpe, Loughborough, Leicestershire (Ref: D/DLI 7/947/77-81)
- No. 86 Prisoner of War Camp, Stanhope, Ashford, Kent (Ref: D/DLI 7/947/82-84)
- No. 111 Prisoner of War Camp, Monymusk, Aberdeenshire (Ref: D/DLI 7/947/85-92)
- Private George ROBSON (Ref: Robson D/DLI 7/588/1-2)
- 43799 Private Harold ROBSON (Ref: Robson D/DLI 7/589/1)
- 200224 Private John Thomas ROBSON (Ref: Robson D/DLI 7/590/1-26)
- 18/1647 Lance-Corporal W. ROBSON (Ref: Robson D/DLI 7/591/1)
- 4458260 Private Leslie ROBSON (Ref: Robson D/DLI 7/948/1-9)
Catalogue Contents
1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Entry in McGregor; adjutant, 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, 13 August 1890 - 18 November 1892; Colonel, The Durham Light Infantry, 27 January 1923 - 21 October 1928
2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Entry in McGregor; born, 1 March 1911; Second Lieutenant in Durham Light Infantry, 27 August 1931; Lieutenant, 27 August 1934; Captain, 27 August 1939; served in India, 1932 - 1936; special employment, Sudan Defence Force, 1937 - 1947; retired as Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel, 12 October 1947; died, May 1975
2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Born Yorkshire; residence County Durham; entry in McGregor; Second Lieutenant, 1932 - 1935; Lieutenant, 1935 - 1939; acting Captain 1939; temporary Captain, 1939 - 1940; Captain 1940; Barrackpore, India 1932 - 1934; Bombay, India, 1934 - 1936; Khartoum, Sudan, 1936 - 1937; Great Britain, 1937 - 1939; France, 1939 - 1940; killed in action, May 1940.
18th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Died of wounds, 15 June 1917
6th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry
Residence Tow Law; occupation schoolmaster; wounded 14 April 1917
2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Ref: D/DLI 7/578/11/8th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Ref: D/DLI 7/579/1'A' Company, 8th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Served in 8th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, after Alamein, Egypt, until the battalion broke up in Belgium; then to Defence Company, Main Headquarters, 21 Army Group
The Durham Light Infantry
Chaplain to the Forces (Territorial Army): 1937 - 1946; Chaplain to the Forces (Emergency Commission), 1939 - 1946
2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Enlisted Huddersfield, Yorkshire, 1940; served with 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, in India and Burma (now Myanmar), including Kohima, 1942 - 1945; demobilised, March 1946
5th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Eldest son of Christopher Ridley and Ada Robinson of Darlington; killed in action, 15 September 1916, aged 22. Medals in DLI Medal Collection.
2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Ref: D/DLI 7/584/15th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Joined the DLI before World War One; returned home because of ill health, March 1918; during the Second World War, a Major in Thornaby Home Guard; died 1948, aged 71. Medals in DLI Medal Collection.
17th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Enlisted, 2 November 1914
21st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Ref: D/DLI 7/587/113th Battalion and 30th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry
Served as Lieutenant in 'A' Company, 13th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, in 1941, and in 30th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, in 1942; posted to 9th Battalion, Yorkshire North Riding Home Guard as adjutant, August 1942; adjutant of No. 86 Prisoner of War Camp, Ashford, Kent, June 1944
The Durham Light Infantry
Medals in DLI Medal Collection.
19th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Enlisted, 11 December 1915; discharged, 11 February 1919
5th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Ref: D/DLI 7/590/115th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Ref: D/DLI 7/591/16th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry
Born 12 January 1919; occupation miner; called up for military service 15 November 1939; served in British Liberation Armies, Middle East Forces, Malta, and Central Mediterranean Force.