Captain Roby Gotch joined the 7th Sherwood Foresters in 1912 and went to the front with his battalion as Lieutenant in February 1915. He was...
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Roby Myddleton Gotch
Captain
Service No. Unknown
Age 26
Died on 1 July 1916
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Somme, France
Son of John Alfred Gotch, M.A. (Hons.) Oxon. F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A., J.P., and Annie Gotch, of Weekley Rise, Kettering.
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At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.
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Roby,O valiant heart, who to your glory came ….. your memory hallowed in the land you loved.
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Roby, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and 7th Battalions ...
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