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| | James Robson |
 | | Jim Robson was born in September 1895 at Cramlington, Northumberland, England. |
 | | Jim started work underground at Dudley Colliery aged 11, on small jobs that would not occupy an adult, until he attained the legal working age when he became a wheeler, handling the skips or trolleys loaded with coal bound for the surface. |
 | | This excellent article was compiled by Peter Robson, Jim's grandson, from family recollections; research conducted by Lithgow City Library; research conducted by Chris Baker including the war diaries of the 9th, 10th, 11th and 21st Battalions, Northumberland Fusiliers; and from the "Historical Records of the Ninth (Service) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers" Captain H Cooke, Newcastle 1927. |
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