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Robert Morrison Hogg (1886-1918)


Served as 2nd lieutenant with 2nd DLI killed in Germany and buried in Cologne Cemetery


Robert Morrison Hogg, the son of Robert and Elizabeth Ann Hogg, was born in North Shields, Northumberland on 17 May 1886. He had three brothers and three sisters and lived in the North Shields area all his life. Along with his brother, John, Tom was a keen bellringer. He enlisted as a Territorial in the 5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers on 19 January 1908 and was called up at the outbreak of war. He landed in France on 20 April 1915 and later that year was wounded and hospitalised in the 18th General Hospital at Camiers.

On 31 October 1917 he was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry (DLI) and married Elizabeth Ann Hunter at about the same time, in Tynemouth. On 21 March 1918 he was shot in the head at Pronie and was captured by the enemy. He was taken to the Fortress Hospital in Cologne, where he died on 1 April, having never seen his son. He is buried in the Cologne Southern Cemetery.

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Civil Parish: South Shields

Birth date: 17-May-1886

Death date: 1-Apr-1918

Armed force/civilian: Army

Residence: 9 Newcastle Street, Tynemouth, Northumberland (1891 census)
1 Brandling Terrace, Tynemouth, Northumberland (1901 census)
17 Widdington Terrace, Tynemouth, Northumberland (1911 census & England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915)
19 Rowley Street, Blyth, Northumberland (Commonwealth War Graves Commission)

Organisation membership: North Shields Bellringers Society
North Shields Tyneside Cycling Club

Employment: Grocer’s assistant (1901 &1911 censuses)

Family: Father: Robert Hogg
Mother: Elizabeth Hogg (nee Coulson)
Siblings: Leonard, John Tom (Killed in 1917 while serving in the 16th (County of London) Battalion (Queen’s Westminster Rifles), Stanley Coulson, Gladys, Alice Maud & Edna Elizabeth Hogg
Wife: Elizabeth Ann Hogg (nee Hunter)
Son: Robert M Hogg

Military service:

5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
Service Nos.: 2486 & 240466
Private
2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry
2nd Lieutenant

Medal(s): 1914-1915 Star
British War Medal
Victory Medal

Memorial(s): Cologne Southern Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Grave Ref.: VIII.B.8
D.L.I. 1914-1918 Book of Remembrance, Durham Cathedral
Durham & Newcastle Diocesan Association of Church Bellringers
Northumbrian WW1 Commemoration Project
St Paul’s Cathedral Central Roll of Honour

Gender: Male

Contributed by John Edwards

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