Frederick Robinson is the oldest man on the Roll of Honour in Wymeswold, Leicestershire. Born in Hampshire of a Staffordshire family, he seems to have worked in the grocery trade, eventually (we think) becoming manager of the Co-op in Wymeswold. How he ended up with the Northumberlands is not clear, though many Wymeswold men found themselves in regimenst other than the local ones. It may be that he had taken up a job as permanent or relif manager in the North East. At the time of his death, his wife was lodging in Loughborough. Given the fact that he made it back to the UK, dying in Stoke on Trent of gunshot wound and septicaemia, he was probably wounded in the German assault on the Lawe canal, near Essars, France on 13th April. His wife appears not to have remarried. Her sister Emily had married in Wymeswold, and it is possible that it was her wish to include him on the Roll of Honour.

Ivor Perry