Notes
The Roll lists his address as 12 Silver Street, London Road. It records his regimental number as 3426 at the time he died, which differs from some official records.
(CWGC records that Corporal Horace Robinson, regimental number 231137, died aged 25 on 15/9/1916 serving in the 1st/2nd Battalion London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), and is commemorated on the Addenda Panel of Thiepval Memorial in France; his details were added to the Commission's Casualty database in November 2011, following a submission from the "In From the Cold" project. Soldiers Died in the Great War records Horace as an Acting Lance Sergeant under the regimental number 3426, stating that he was a native of Peterborough who was living in Islington when he enlisted in London. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record him as Lance Sergeant Horace Robinson, indicating that his regimental number was 231137, formerly 3426; they record that his death on or since 15/9/1916 was presumed, and that his father John T Robinson was his legatee. The Medal Rolls record Horace under the regimental number 3426, stating that he went to France on 25/8/1915; his 1915 Star medal was issued in the rank of Corporal in the 2nd Battalion London Regiment; his British and Victory medals were issued under the rank of Lance Sergeant. Horace Robinson's birth was registered in the Peterborough District in 1891. On the 1891 census he was 3 months old, living with his parents John T and Mary E Robinson at 5 Eastgate, Peterborough. On the 1911 census Horace was working as a floor porter at the Railway Hotel in Manchester, while his parents were living at 12 Silver Street, New Fletton, Peterborough).