Second Lieutenant Harry Robinson

Second Lieutenant Harry Stanley Shepley Robinson, 3rd ( Reserve ) Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers. He died in Belgium of wounds, aged 19, on 9th June 1915. He had been born in Halifax to Harry and Alice Robinson of Langholm and is buried in Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, Flanders, Belgium. Before enlisting he had worked in the Land Values Office in Melrose and was the local scoutmaster. He was commissioned into the 2nd Battalion K.O.S.B. in October 1914 and went to France where he was attached to the staff of the 13th Brigade. It was here that he was fatally wounded by a shrapnel shell burst. His Headstone is inscribed ” Underneath Are The Everlasting Arms”.