Name
Lewis William Robins
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Lewis Robins was born on 15th August 1900 at Abbots Langley. He was one of six children (four sons and two daughters) born to Frederick and Elizabeth Robins. In all three of the four sons served in the Great War. At the time of the 1901 and 1911 Census the family lived at 4 Garden Road, Abbots Langley, and Frederick (senior) was employed as a Stockman at Cecil Lodge.
The Royal Marine Registers of Service noted that Lewis enlisted with the Royal Marine Light Infantry (RMLI), Chatham Division, on 14th January 1918. He was recorded for the first time in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in February 1918, and was listed each month through to the end of the War.
Lewis Robins survived the War, as did his brothers Frederick and Percy. However his brother-in-law Albert Abbott was killed in action on the Somme on 1st July 1916, serving with the 1st Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry.
Additional Information
Rank unknown
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
