A Poppy
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Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
Links to
- CWGC Headstones -
- Belgium : Ypres area : Cement House Cemetery CWGC : Sir Robin George Vivian Duff -

Location

In Cement House Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
 
Description

Standard CWGC Headstone.
Grave location : XVII. C. 12.

Originally buried at Oostnieuwkerke Churchyard.
Headstone


 

from Royal Aero Club album
Inscription


SIR ROBIN DUFF, BT.
LIEUTENANT
2ND LIFE GUARDS
16TH OCTOBER 1917

NOTHING IS HERE FOR TEARS;
NOTHING BUT WELL AND FAIR

 
Further Information

Sir Robin George Vivian Duff

Son of Sir Charles Garden Assheton-Smith, 1st Bart., of Vaynol Park, Bangor, County Carnarvon and Hon. Maud Frances Vivian.

Born : 14 Nov 1876, London.

Married : 9 June 1903, Lady Juliet Lowther Duff, of Wilton, Salisbury, at St George's Hanover Square, London.

Census Information :

1881 : Robin Geo V Duff, aged 4, is listed as a Visitor (with his Governess), in the household of Lady Cockrane, at Quarr Abbey House, Binstead.

1891 : Robin G V Duff, aged 14, with his mother, is a Visitor, in the household of Georgianna Guilford, at The Mansion, Flax Court, Waldershare, Eythorne Waldershare, Kent.

1901 : Lt Robert George Duff, aged 24, is serving with the 2nd Life Guards, at Regents Park Barracks, London.

1911 : family not located



CWGC record ...
 
Commmemorated on the following Isle of Wight Memorial(s) :

Bembridge War Memorial
County War Memorial, Carisbrooke Castle


Further biographical information

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