Gabriel Robb
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 250263
Place of Birth: Barony
Date of Death: 08/10/1918
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery (‘B’ Bty. 181st Bde.)
Cemetery: Proville British Cemetery
Additional information: Husband of Agnes Robb, 51 Queen Street, Rutherglen.
Rutherglen Lore information: Husband of Agnes Borland, 51 Queen Street, Rutherglen.
Soldier’s Effects information: Widow Agnes Robb.
1901 census information:
Address: 30 Soho Street, Glasgow.
Father: Gabriel (39) carter, born about 1862 in Glasgow.
Mother: Agnes (38) born about 1863 in Glasgow.
Brother: Henry (16) carter, born about 1885 in Glasgow.
Sister: Agnes (14) domestic servant, born about 1887 in Glasgow.
Sister: Mary (11) born about 1890 in Glasgow.
Self: Gabriel (8) born about 1893 in Glasgow.
Sister: Maggie (6) born about 1895 in Glasgow.
Brother: John (4) born about 1897 in Glasgow.
Brother: Robert (4 months) born about 1901 in Glasgow.
1911 census information:
Gabriel 19 is living in MacLeod, Alberta, Canada. He is living with his brother Henry 26, sister-in-law Christina 26, and nieces Agnes 4 and Mary 2.
Newspaper transcript – Robb. – Killed in action on the 9th October, 1918, Gunner Gabriel Robb, R.F.A., on his 26th birthday, second son of Gabriel Robb, contractor, East End, and Agnes Robb, 55 Roslea Drive, and beloved husband of Agnes Borland, 53 Queen Street, Rutherglen. – Canadian papers please copy.
Newspaper transcript – Gunner Gabriel Robb (26), R.F.A. (killed) was the husband of Mrs Robb, 51 Queen Street, Glasgow.
Additional information: Gabriel married Agnes McCorkindale Borland in 1917 in Rutherglen. They had 1 child Gabrielle Stewart Robb born in 1918 in Rutherglen.
Also commemorated on the memorial in Rutherglen Old Parish Church.