Robert Monaghan was born on 19th June 1891 at 120 Salrmarket, Glasgow, son of Edward Monaghan, a Riveter/Boilermaker, and Helen Monaghan, nee Burgess.  Around 1900, the family moved to Leith.  

Robert was a Private in the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, stationed at Dreghorn Camp, Edinburgh, when he married Mary Jane Baptie on 1st September 1916.  Mary was the widow of Thomas Sanderson, a Private in the Seaforth Highlanders, who was killed in action near Messines on 8th December 1914.

Robert Monaghan was killed in action just 6 weeks before the birth of his son, Robert Edward Monaghan, on what would have been his 26th birthday.

Sadly, his son died of pneumonia at just 10 months of age.

Fiona Sim