Robert Maxwell | Royal Artillery
Photographs of Robert Maxwell with family and with horses; certificates and other documentation; handwritten poem called The Parting Rosary.
Robert Maxwell was my Grandfather. He was born in 1887 and served in the Royal Artillery in WWI He had a totla of 14 children and was married 3 times. The fmaily story is that Robert was driving horses and mules. He was caught in heavy shelling and his animals were killed but he had a lucky escape!
He worked for the Guinness brewery in Dublin and died in 1956.
CONTRIBUTOR
Rene Doyle
DATE
1914 - 1918
LANGUAGE
eng
ITEMS
12
INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
PROGRESS
METADATA
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