Royal Garrison Artillery, 24th and 52nd Company, Service no. 133396
Born: 24th August 1895. Died: 5th February 1962.
Story
Robert was born in Spalding Marsh, Lincolnshire, and was the son of John Halifax and Frances Baker. He moved to Kippax, and had a daughter, Kathleen, on 2nd April 1914, with Laura Revis Henshaw, who would serve as a Munitions Worker at Barnbow during the First World War. Robert was 5 ft 8¾ inches tall, a Wesleyan, and enlisted on 8th December 1916 in Lincoln. He suffered a hernia during the War, likely caused by heavy lifting, and was hospitalised.
Whilst on leave, Robert married Laura Revis Henshaw in Kippax on 19th January 1918. He left the Army on 18th February 1919, and then lived on Well Lane, where the couple had a second daughter, Joyce, in 1919.
Laura passed away in 1933, and Robert moved back to Spalding, where in 1939 he was working as a chauffeur. Robert was living at 45 Love Lane, Spalding, when he passed away at Johnson Hospital, Spalding in 1962 at the age of 66.
Below: Royal Garrison Artillery during the First World War
Kippax Roll of Honour 