DEAR OLD JACK

SERJEANT ROBERT JOHN CALLANDAR

THE KING'S (LIVERPOOL REGIMENT)

11TH AUGUST 1916 AGE 23

BURIED: CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, FRANCE


Robert John Callander was a marine insurance clerk from Wallasey in Cheshire. He enlisted in The King's, a territorial battalion of the Liverpool Regiment, in February 1913 and went with them to France on 1 November 1914. Treated for wounds in June, September and October 1915, he eventually died on 11 August 1916 from the wounds he'd received two days earlier at Guillemont. His mother confirmed his inscription.