Name
Robert Heath Fawcett
5 March 1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/04/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TUILERIES BRITISH CEMETERY
Sp. Mem. D. 2.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Town Memorial, St Peter's Church Memorial, Berkhamsted, All Saints Church Memorial, Berkhamsted, Emmanuel College Memorial, Cambridge
Pre War
Robert Heath Fawcett was born on 5 March 1893 in Wimbledon, Surrey, the son of Henry Heath and Colina Fawcett and one of six children, although one had died by 1911. He was baptised at Holy Trinity and St Peter Church, Wimbledon on 16April 1893. They were then living at 38 Griffiths Road.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 'Kingsley', Teddington, Middx where his father was working as a Principal Clerk in the Civil Service.
He was educated at Hillside School, Godalming and on the 1911 Census he was a boarder at Uppingham School, Rutland. His parents and siblings were then living at Oakin Cottage, North Road, Berkhamsted.
He went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1912 to read Classics but did not graduate. Whilst there he was a member of the Officer Training Corps.
Wartime Service
Robert was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant with the 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment on 15 August 1914. He went to Flanders on 10 April 1915 where he was attached to the 1st Battalion.
He was killed in action near Ypres on 26 April 1915 in fighting at Hill 60 and is buried in Tuileries British Cemetery, Belgium. (Many of the graves were destroyed when the cemetery was badly shelled later in the war. Special memorials commemorated those whose graves were destroyed.)
Additional Information
Pay owing of £47 was sent to the Manager of the Capital & Counties Bank, Covent Garden Branch to credit the account of H H Fawcett Esq. (father)
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.emma.cam.ac.uk
