- First Name(s):Robert
- Surname:SHRIMPTON
- Service Number:245801
- Rank:
Sapper
- Conflict:WW1
- Service:Army
- Army Sector:Engineers
- Corps:Corps of Royal Engineers
- Regiment:Royal Engineers
- Unit:98th Field Company
- Former Units:None
- Date of Death:23rd October 1918
- Age At Death:42
- Place of Death:Unknown
- Place of Burial:Vendegies-Au-Bois Churchyard, France, Grave 9.
- Place of Birth:Unknown
- Home Town:Unknown
- Casualty's Relatives:
Son of James and Isabella Amelia Shrimpton, of 140, Mount Pleasant, Redditch, Worcestershire
SHRIMPTON Robert Is Named On These Memorials
Further Information About SHRIMPTON Robert
Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for army casualties located in Worcester Cathedral.
The following information is courtesy and copyright of family member, Valda Shrimpton:
Robert Shrimpton, full name Robert Solomon Haynes Shrimpton was born 22nd November 1876 and baptised at St Luke’s Church, Headless Cross on 13th May 1877. As a young man he served in the Royal Berkshire Regiment, service no 21744 and is missing from the 1891 domestic census. He appears on both the 1901 and 1911 censuses at the family home of 140 Mount Pleasant, Redditch as a carpenter. He never married. He enlisted in Redditch and was a sapper in the Royal Engineers, killed in action 23rd October 1918. It is his name that appears on his local church St Luke’s Headless Cross war memorial.
His mother Isabella Amelia Haynes born locally around the Crabbs Cross/Feckenham area predeceased him in 1895. His father James Jason Shrimpton born Long Crendon Buckinghamshire in 1839 and moved to Mount Pleasant by the 1860s did not die until 1924. Both parents are buried in Plymouth Road Cemetery. James Jason Shrimpton was a builder and carpenter who had ten children with his wife.
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