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Alfred Robbins

Rank: 
Gunner
Regimental number: 
322954
Unit at enlistment: 
12th Brigade C.F.A., 54th Battery
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
Yes
Wounded: 
Yes
Cemetery: 
Farringdon Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario
Birth country: 
Canada
Birth county: 
Brant
Birth city: 
Brantford, Ontario
Address at enlistment: 
23 Mt. Pleasant Street, Brantford, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
23 Mt. Pleasant Street, Brantford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Mechanic
Employer: 
Brantford Laundry Co.
Religious denominations: 
Presbyterian
Marital status: 
Single
Age at enlistment: 
32

Letters and documents

BX April 11, 1917
 
Battery in France

That one of the last batteries to leave Brantford is now in the thick of the fighting in France is apparent from the casualty lists of yesterday and today. Yesterday the wounding of Driver Charles F. Lahey was reported two days after he had gone into the trenches, and today Gunner Alfred Robbins is also reported wounded. He is a member of Harmony Lodge, I.O.O.F., and formerly worked at the Brantford Laundry. His mother is Mrs. J. Robbins, residing at 23 Mt. Pleasant Street.

BX December 4, 1970

Alfred Robbins

ROBBINS – At the Brantford General Hospital, on Tuesday, December 1, 1970.  Alfred Robbins, in his 86th year of 23 Mount Pleasant Street, brother-in-law of Mrs. Madeline Robbins; uncle of Howard Riordon, Mrs. Dorothy Cummings, Gerald Robbins and Mrs. Betty Goldhang. Mr. Robbins was a member of Doric Lodge No. 121 A.F. and A.M. and Brant Encampment No. 4 I.O.O.F.  Resting at the Beckett Funeral Home, 88 Brant Avenue, for service on Friday at 3.30 p.m. with Canon C.V. Tomkins officiating.  Interment Farringdon Burial Ground.

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