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The Roll lists his address as 17 School Place, Albert Place. It misrecords his rank as Private.
(CWGC records that Able Seaman Robert Ernest Titman, service number R/6312, died aged 18 on 21/8/1918 serving in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve with Anson Battalion, Royal Naval Division, and is commemorated on Vis en Artois Memorial in France. They record him as the son of George and A.M. Titman of 17 School Place, Albert Place, Peterborough.
Robert's birth was registered in Peterborough District in 1899; he was baptised on 1/7/1903 at St John's Church in Peterborough as the son of George and Alice Mezilla Titman of 17 School Place. On the 1901 census he was recorded as Ernest R Titman, living with his parents at 4 Globe Street, Albert Place, Peterborough. On the 1911 census he was recorded as Robert Ernest, living with his parents at 17 School Place, Albert Place.
The Jack Clegg Memorial database of Royal Naval Casualties of the Great War records that Robert joined the RNVR on 11/9/1917, was sent overseas on 5/4/1918, and joined Anson Battalion on 8/4/1918. The National Archives record of Naval Casualties (ADM 242; Piece 010) records Robert's date of birth as 19/8/1899).