Robert worked as a clerk with the Clyde Shipping Company and lived at various times at 1 Glenview Terrace, Murdieston Street and 21 Murdieston Street

Robert attested at Glasgow Recruiting Office on the 1st January 1915 aged just 17. He was gassed and wounded with a gunshot wound to the thigh in October that year at Loos. He recovered and was posted again in February 1916 but appears to have been sent home injured and invalided out of the army by March 1918. After the war, in 1920, he started work at the Dellingburn Power Station, as a switchboard attendant. 

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