Abingdon and the First World War
Those Who Served
Weaving
Robert Valentine Weaving
Details from the Abingdon Roll of Honour
Name: WEAVING, Robert Valentine
Status: Died
Address: 1 Exbourne Road
Rank: Sergeant
Service No: 200246
Battalion, Ship or Squadron: 1st/4th
Regiment: Royal Berkshire Regiment
Chronology: from August 1914, France
Cause of Death: Died of wounds
Place at death: France
Date of death: 27 August 1916
Born: Abingdon
Enlisted: Reading
Resident: Abingdon
Age at Death: 28
Family Details: Son of Robert and Martha Weaving, of Abingdon, Berks; husband of Dorothy Weaving.
Buried or Commemorated: Buried in MILL ROAD CEMETERY, THIEPVAL, Somme, France.
Reference: Plot VIII. Row B. Grave 6.
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