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2 unusual facts about Thomas Claude Robson


Thomas Claude Robson

The magnificent soaring windows set high up at the back of the nave, at the west end of the Cathedral, were erected to the memory of one of the parish’s sons, Lieut William Newby, R.A.F., killed in action in France in 1918, and buried at Rejet-de-Beaulieu.

He caught a chill at Gibraltar in 1924, from which he never recovered, and he died, aged 26, at his parents’ residence in Kimberley.



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