Although Jesse was too old to be called up to fight in the Great War, he volunteered because the iron mongers shop he worked in had to provi...
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Jesse Birkbeck Roberson
Corporal
Service No. 20676
Age 34
Died on 27 August 1917
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Son of the late Jesse Putland Roberson and Isabella Roberson, of Stockton-on-Tees; husband of Phoebe Roberson, of 18, Clarendon Rd., Middlesbrough.
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Remembering my great grandfather. One of countless thousands killed at Passendale. Never found, but never forgotten.
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Although Jesse was too old to be called up to fight in the Great War, he volunteered and joined up anyway. Killed in action in Belguim.
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We will remember them.
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Still remembered. And when we rang the bells of St George's Beckenham close to your 100th anniversary, hundreds more heard and remembered, t...
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