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Robert John Brooke Gill

 Robert John Brooke Gill

Person details

Forename(s) Robert John Brooke
Surname Gill
Rank Corporal
Regiment Royal Army Service Corps
Age 29
Death Killed in action
Place of Death Western Europe > Belgium > Crombeke, Flanders
Date of Death 25/05/1940
Year of Entry 1924
House Letter D
School Notes -
Comments
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link https://www.cwgc.org/find-record...
Unit
Prefect -
Military Decorations
Album Number 22
Battle
Previous Regiment
Burial or Cemetery Belgium > Dozinghem
Citations
Archives Correspondence file in OR files in Radley Archives
Post School Reading University - agriculture; Farming
Prep School
Prisoner of War
Radlein Obituary November 17 1940. On 25th May, I940, killed in action at Crombeke. Flanders, Robert John Brooke Gill, CorpI., R.A.S.C. He came to Radley (Stevenson's, D) in September I924 and after five terms owing to ill health he left and went to Chillon College in Switzerland. Subsequently he went to Reading University where he studied Agriculture. He rowed in the University VIlI in 1932 and 1933. Although in a reserved occupation. he enlisted in the R.A.S.C. in December 1939, and, at the time of his death, was a corporal serving with an ambulance unit.
Service Number 129756
Place of Birth