Thomas Robinson
Thomas Robinson was killed during the attack on Serre on the 1st July 1916 and, according to his best mate Private Richard ‘Dickie’ Barrow, was “blown to bits by a shell”. Thomas has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme.
He was born in Eccleston near Chorley in 1888, the eldest son of James and Annie; he had six sisters and one younger brother called Charlie. In 1901 they were living at Grove Crescent in Eccleston and by 1911 had moved to ‘Jesmondene’ on The Green in the village. A single man, Thomas worked at Carrington & Dewhurst’s textile mill in Eccleston and worshipped at St. Mary’s in the village.
Up to 1928, Dickie Barrow put a notice in the columns of the Chorley Guardian on the anniversary of James Robinson’s death.
