Lieutenant Robert Anderson Gault
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
MILITARY INFORMATION
Lieutenant (British Army).
RESEARCH INFORMATION
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 :
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"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."