Private Robert Rutherford

Private Robert Murray Rutherford, 11th ( Service ) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He died in France on 30th July 1916, aged , 22, of wounds received in action during the Battle of the Somme. He was the son of Robert and Margaret Rutherford of Chatton and is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. His Headstone is inscribed ” Faithful Unto Death “. The photographs show troops on the Somme with the colour image showing a peaceful Somme landscape today with ” no gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now”.

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