| Surname: |
Carpenter |
| Initials/Name: |
Robert John |
| Country of Service: |
UK |
| Rank: |
Private |
| Regiment: |
Norfolk Regiment |
| Unit: |
9th Battalion |
| Service No: |
27168 |
| Age: |
29 |
| Date of Death |
20/11/1917 |
| How died: |
Killed in Action |
| Awards: |
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| Cemetery: |
Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Plouich |
| Country: |
France |
| Grave Reference: |
IV.H.19 |
| Local Memorials: |
Stock and St. Mary's Buttsbury |
| Address: |
Son of John and Charlotte Carpenter, of Stock, Born at Great Burstead, Essex |
| CWGC Page: |
Robert Carpenter |
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(should this link fail, search the
CWGC site) |
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Below from John Westwood |
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| Robert John Carpenter enlisted in Warley and was a Private in the 9th Battalion,
the Norfolk Regiment and was 29 years old when he was killed in action, 20th October 1917. He was involved in the now famous Battle of Cambrai where
tanks were used for the first time. He is buried at Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Plouich. "Fifteen Ravine" was the name given by the Army
to the shallow ravine, once bordered by fifteen trees, which ran at right angles to the railway about 800 metres south of the village of
Villers-Plouich, but the cemetery is in fact in "Farm Ravine," on the east side of the railway line, nearer to the village. |
| Robert John was the son of John and Charlotte Carpenter and had been born at
Great Burstead. |
| According to the 1901 Census return and also the Buttsbury Memorial Robert John
Carpenter was just John Carpenter |
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| 1901 census |
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Updated 22.09.2024 |
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