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Sergeant Robert Campbell Gregory
333018
1st. / 9th Kings Liverpool Regiment
A married man and prior to volunteering for service, lived at Ormskirk.
On the 22nd of September 1917 whilst in
the trench which ran along Loos to Hullock road in France, Sergeant Gregory had
just ordered his section “to keep their heads down”, Within the following
minute, he himself cautiously looked over the enemy lines and was hit by a
sniper.
Dick Trafford of Ormskirk who was standing beside
him when this happened s
aid that Robert was as decent a sergeant as one could
wish to have,
He
is commemorated on panels 31/34 at Tyne Cot, Belgium, 8Km. North east of Ypres,
off the N303.
