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Robert’s father, Walter, was the headmaster of Chesterfield Grammar School for many years, and the soldier was a pupil there and was said to be exceptionally brilliant. He enlisted in the London Sanitary Co of the Royal Army Medical Corp in December 1914. But his war was short-lived, sometime during late 1915 he contracted phlebitis, a fatal disease at the time, and was shipped back to Britain, where he died in the Western General Hospital in Manchester. He was noted as a keen athlete before the war as well as a choir boy and fund raiser at Brimington Church. From http://www.brimington-memorial.co.uk/30.html
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