Basic Details
Surname
Greenwood
Forenames
Robert
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Notes
Hornshaw and Fowler provide the extra details. He was engaged to a Sophie Waddington and working as both a painter and decorator and a loader on the grouse moors before he enlisted in September 1916. Wounded by shrapnel on 31/7/17, he was admitted to a field ambulance unit but died just under a week later according to a nurse who contacted his parents. He was not found to be commemorated on any other Calderdale memorial that was researched by them.
Primary Service
As stated on memorial
Service (Primary - Stated)
Not stated on the memorial
Unit (Primary - Stated)
Not stated on the memorial
Rank / Title (Primary - Stated)
Not stated on the memorial
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
Belgium
Country of burial
Belgium
Town of burial
Poperinghe
Cemetery
New British Military Cemetery
Year of death
1917
Month of death
August
Day of death
6
Age at death
34
Manner of death as stated
Not stated on memorial
Manner of death reference
Died of Wounds