Thomas Gerald ROBINSON

Ancestral surnames: 

• Robinson, Allen, Bullock, Aspden (by marriage: Idiens, Westwood)
• see his family tree drawing via www.groupphoto.co.uk/extra Row 3

Education: 

• Dulwich College
• A German school (he was sent on his own on a train to Germany and was not allowed to speak English after the first 3 weeks - unsurprisingly he became a fluent German speaker).

Decorations & Campaign Medals:

• Military Cross (MC) (1^st January 1917 – awarded in New Year Honours, no citation)

• French Croix de Guerre (First World War, date unknown)
• ​1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
• Second World War awards unknown (probably Defence Medal 1939-45, War Medal 1939-45)

Memorials: 

• None (funeral at the Downs Crematorium, Brighton, Sussex, England, with a military colour party (though no musketry) provided by the Guards Depot in Caterham. Cremated and his ashes scattered in I Section of their memorial grounds).

Pages in book (www.groupphoto.co.uk/the-book): 140-142

Appears in Charles Bartlett's letters: see I Shall Not Be Away Long book

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