Robert Ankers

Warrencourt British Cemetery

Robert Ankers

Rifleman No. 372125, (previously 4581)

8th Battalion London Regiment. (Post Office Rifles.)

Killed in action in France (Battle of the Somme) 7 October 1916. Age 34.

Buried in Warlencourt British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. VI.G.1.

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Born in No Man’s Heath in 1882.

Third son of William and Ellen Ankers of Church Street, Malpas.

Married Harriet Warburton 1914.

Father of Charles who was baptised on 22 Nov 1914. 

Robert was a postman prior to enlisting.