Robinson, William Wadham
Private
No. 25300, 10th Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Killed in action on Monday 13 November 1916 (aged 41)
Buried:
Ancre British Cemetery, France (Grave I. C. 36)
Commemorated:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Belfast Banking Company Roll of Honour 1914 – 1919
BIOGRAPHY
The death of Private William Wadham Robinson (No. 25300) was reported in the 9 December 1916 edition of the Newtownards Chronicle under the headline Former Newtownards Banker Killed. William Wadham Robinson worked for the Belfast Banking Company Ltd and it was noted that he had served in Moville, Saintfield, Limavady and Derry.
William Wadham Robinson was born on 28 August 1875 in Irish Street, Strabane, Co Tyrone and he was a son of James and Rose Robinson (nee Wadham) who were married on 28 November 1872 in St Jude’s Church of England Church, West Derby, Lancaster. James Robinson, a widowed bookkeeper from Strabane was a son of William Robinson, a farmer. Later James Robinson was a merchant, and a grocer, and the family lived at 37 Patrick Street, Strabane.
James and Rose Robinson (nee Wadham) had at least six children:
Mary Wadham (born 15 November 1873 in Abercorn Square, Strabane, Co Tyrone; married Richard Leahy who served as an Engineer Lieutenant with the Royal Naval Reserve during the Great War)
William Wadham (born 28 August 1875 in Irish Street, Strabane, Co Tyrone
James (born 24 September 1877 in Irish Street, Strabane, Co Tyrone)
Henry Alexander (born 4 January 1880 in Patrick Street, Strabane, Co Tyrone)
Rose (born 13 August 1882 in Irish Street, Strabane, Co Tyrone)
Frederick Charles Stanton (born 8 September 1884 in Patrick Street, Strabane, Co Tyrone; moved to Canada; attested at Brantford, Ontario on 14 January 1918; served with the 2nd Central Ontario Regiment, No. 3310322; discharged 12 July 1919 at Toronto; died in Hamilton General Hospital on 9 May 1951, aged 66, late of 28 Duke Street, Hamilton, Ontario)
Their father, James Robinson, died on 2 September 1892), and their mother, Rose Robinson, died on 17 June 1920 at Patrick Street, Strabane. Her son James was present when she died.
Before the war, William Wadham Robinson worked as a cashier in the Belfast Bank’s Portadown branch, and it was in Portadown that he enlisted.
Private William Wadham Robinson (No. 25300) served with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and he was 41 when he was killed in action on 13 November 1916 during the last days of the Battle of the Somme. He was buried in Ancre British Cemetery, France.
Private William Wadham Robinson (No. 25300) is commemorated on the Belfast Banking Company Roll of Honour 1914 – 1919.
[The Belfast Banking Company was taken over by the Northern Banking Company which was subsequently taken over by Danske Bank.]