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Robert Watmore blue plaque

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Robert Watmore blue plaque
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This blue commemorative plaque records: Close by during an air raid on the night of 6th September 1942 Gunner Robert Watmore aged 19 from Newbridge Nr. Edinburgh, serving with the 52nd A.A. Training Regiment, Royal Artillery, became the only British Soldier to be killed in Whitby by Enemy Action in the Second World War. Lest we forget. Recorded plaque organisation: Whitby Civic Society.
Gunner Robert Watmore, a 19-year-old soldier from Newbridge near Edinburgh serving with the 52nd A.A. Training Regiment of the Royal Artillery, was tragically killed during an air raid on September 6, 1942, making him the only British soldier to be killed in Whitby by enemy action during World War II.

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