Notts Free Press, 10th March 1916
PLATTS R
Robert Platts
Private 12/19512
12th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Notts Free Press, 10th March 1916
Robert Platts died on Monday 14th February 1916, aged 30 years, and was buried in the MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
He was born c1885 at Newton, Derbys, to parents William & Eliza Platts, and was their eldest son. William Platts was a Coal Miner who married Eliza North in 1882. On the 1901 census the family were living in Skegby, and Robert was employed as a Colliery Horse Driver.
Robert Platts is also remembered on the Stanton Hill War Memorial.
Notts Free Press, 10th March 1916
Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 16th February 1917
In loving memory of Private Robert Platts, who was killed in France, February 14th 1916. And as we looked on his dear face, The tears bedimmed our eyes; For oh it was so hard to think, We could not say "Goodbye". From Wife and children, Mother and Father-in-law, Brother Bill in France, and Sister-in-law, Ethel.
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War
1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
Platts, Robert. Born Newton, Derbys. Enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts (resides Mansfield, Notts). 12th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 19512, Killed in Action, France & Flanders 15th February 1916.
Research by Heather Faulkes
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