In Memory Of
EMINSON, ROBERT ASTLEY FRANKLIN
Service Details
Age:
24
Date of Birth:
1891-08-23
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Unit:
6th Bn.
Unit 2:
attd. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Regiment:
King's Royal Rifle Corps
Date of Death:
1916-07-20
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, gallantly endeavouring to bring in a wounded sergeant
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
I. S. 16.
Cemetery:
BECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, BECORDEL-BECOURT
Localitly:
Somme
Country:
France
Additional Information
Son of Thomas Benjamin Franklin and Clara Eminson, of Gonerby Cottage, Scotter, Gainsborough. B.A. Cantab. (Downing College). Assistant Entomologist to British South Africa Co., 1913-15. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918
