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Private Harry Robinson of the 5th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment (the "Beverley Territorials") was seriously injured during the 2nd Battle of Ypres. The Beverley Guardian of 15 May 1915 reported he had been evacuated to hospital at Fazakerley, Liverpool and was awaiting an operation for his unspecified injury. He stated in a letter to his mother that, "he was in good bodily health but bedfast….". "Don't worry about me, mother, I'm in a good shop here", he added.
Harry was born in Leeds in 1894, his mother Mary Ann Robinson was brought up in the Beverley Workhouse, before becoming a domestic servant. In 1881 she was working at the Tiger Inn, Driffield then in 1891 in Leeds with the Swales' family. Harry's father is unknown but the family did return to Beverley, living in the vicinity of Keldgate, Mary worked as charwoman.
Harry was a member of the Beverley Boy's Brigade and was possibly been in the local militia before the war. The 1911 census records him as a groom with the Holderness Hunt, possibly at Etton. A Harry Robinson who living at 10 Eastgate, Beverley, married Evelyn Robinson and died in 1965 may be Harry but this cannot be verified.
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