Ref ID: 51641829699
Name
Robert Millar.
Description
Newspaper Photograph of Rifleman Robert Millar.
Life Story
Name: Robert Millar.
Service Number: 7417.
Rank: Rifleman.
Battalion: 2nd Battalion.
Regiment: Royal Irish Rifles.
Born: Shankill, Belfast.
Died: 9th May 1915.
Address: 42 Vistula Street, Belfast.
.
Robert Millar, son of William and of Matilda Millar ( now Freel ), stepson of James, lived at 42 Vistula Street, Belfast
.
Robert joined the Royal Irish Rifles.
He was posted as part of the British Expeditionary Force to France on the 8th April 1915.
Robert was a Rifleman in C Company 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles when he was Killed In Action on the 9th May 1915 aged 17 years.
.
A local newspaper states
.
A letter from Sergeant Tweedie, 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, received in Belfast yesterday, states that Private Robert Millar, D Company, of 42 Vistula Street, was killed in the trenches on the 7th inst. Mrs Millar has not yet received confirmation from the War Office.
.
Robert Soldiers Effects were left to his mother Mrs Matilda Freel, previously Millar.
His Will, signed and dated 9th May 1915 stated the following, In the event of my death I give the whole of my property and effects to my Mother 42 Vistula Street, Belfast.
A Pension Application Form shows his mother as claimant and as living at 14 Harrison Street, Crumlin Road, Belfast.
Dependant Pension Application Forms show his mother as claimant also.
.
Robert received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1915 Star.
.
He is Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
To Remember Is To Honour
.
Theme
Shankill Roll of Honour
Date
1915
Classification
Newspaper, , Photograph - Belfast Telegraph, Larne Times
