Reginald Travers Robertson
Rank: Private
Regiment: 1st Canadian Stationary Hospital, Canadian Expeditionary Force
Wife: Mrs Elsa A L Robertson (nee Williams)
Father: William N Robertson of Australia
Mother–in-Law: Mrs E Williams
Address: East Finchley, London
Other Info: Married at the Holy Trinity Church by the Rev T W Cook. The bride was given away by Captain Thompson Walton and the Best Man was Joel Walton.
You can view Reginald’s CEF enlistement papers for free here.
Published: April 1917
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Robertson was born in 1892 in Melbourne, Australia, son of William Nolan Robertson, public accountant, and died in 1944 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. He had joined the Canadian Army on the 18 September 1914 at Valcartier, Canada, as an insurance manager. He stated that he had served in the Australian militia for about five years.
He married on the 11 April 1917. Despite the newspaper claiming that the bride was a Miss Williams, the marriage certificate states that she, age 18, was Elsie Agnes Louise Schreck, of 5 Cambridge Road daughter of Arfest Franz Hermann Schreck, cloth merchant. No doubt her German name encouraged the false report. The 1901 census in Prittlewell, Essex shows that her father was born in Germany, her mother in London, as was she.
She died in 1967 in Vancouver.