Private Robert Winterbottom
21072 5th Field Company Royal Engineers
Formerly Army Service Corps
Missing in Action 10th March 1915, aged 25
Lived at 135 Briercliffe Road
Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, France
Burnley Express 20th March 1915 - 26th May1915

Burnleys Great War Centenary

Sponsored by: Diane Dean

Two sides of a postcard sent to his sister, Lizzie, a few weeks before he was killed.

(courtesy of Diane Dean)

"You may be interested to know that Robert's 22 year old brother, Walter, was said to have been "grief stricken and just sat staring out of the window before he died [April 5th.1915] of a broken heart less than a month after 'Bob' was killed". Perhaps Walter had been ill for some time because the two brothers were, by all accounts, very close and would probably have gone to enlist together. Walter's in memoriam postcard reads "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain".