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Lieutenant Robert Anderson Gault

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date of birth: 1897-01-04
Place of birth: Canada
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Student
Occupation (normalized): Other Professional, Technical and Related Workers Not Elsewhere Classified
Address: Harrow School, England
Religion: Church of England
Date of death: 1916-09-16
Cause of death: Not specified
Buried: Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 8 D.

MILITARY INFORMATION

Regimental number: NA
Highest Rank: Lieutenant
Rank detail

Lieutenant (British Army).

Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: yes

RESEARCH INFORMATION

CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try this.
CWGC ID: 747909
Uploader's Notes:

From 1901 Census, son of Leslie H. and Marion A. Anderson, Born in Quebec, living in Montrea

Listed in the CWGC, not in CVWM

Listed as Lieutenant, Grenadier Guards, 4th Battalion (BEF).

From: Harrow memorials of the Great War :Vol 4 - July 5th, 1916, to April 11th, 1917 (1919)

Eldest son of Leslie Hamilton Gault, of Braehead, Montreal, and of Tetton House, Taunton, and of Mrs. Gault. Lieutenant Gault left Harrow in July, 1914, to take up a promising business appointment. When the War broke out he returned to Harrow by special permission, in order to prepare for the Army, and was gazetted to the Grenadier Guards in January, 1916. He was promoted Lieutenant on September 10th, 1916, and was killed in action six days later.
His Colonel wrote :

"He died a most gallant death ; he fell doing outpost duty beyond the first line of trenches on the night of September 16th. I am personally very sad ; he was a dear, good, gallant lad, and was doing splendidly in every way."

Uploader's Research notes: [Lieutenant Army British Infantry Grenadier Guards ]

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Date added: 2009-10-22
Last modified: 2013-07-20