Shaw, Robert Henderson (1894 - 1916)

Second Lieutenant, 13th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers

Buried at Cement House Cemetery

Commemorated at Bellahouston Academy Roll of Honour

Being gazetted on 27 December 1914 to the "Fighting Fifth." Robert trained with his Battalion in the south of England. On his way to Scotland in May 1915 he travelled by the train which collided with the troop train at Gretna. He and a brother officer were pinned under the wreckage but managed to extricate themselves, neither being seriously injured. At the end of September 1915 he proceeded to France where he was wounded in February 1916. After being invalided home he returned to the front in July 1916. He fell in action at the age of 22 on the Somme (France) on 17 September 1916.

Robert was the third son of Mr and Mrs Robert P Shaw, "Palatine", Manor Road, Dumbreck, Glasgow. He was a member of the University Officer´s Training College. He was in the employment of Messrs George Smith & Sons, of the City Line, Bothwell Street, Glasgow.

Memorial: Lieutenant Shaw's grave; Bellahouston Academy Roll of Honour 1914-1918 and the Scottish National War Memorial.