Private Robert Dames

Army Number: 18258

Battalion: 12th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived in Radford, Nottingham. Son of John and Elizabeth Dames. Husband of Clara Dames, of 27, Ossington Street, Nottingham. He enlisted at Nottingham and went to France on 29th August 1915 and was killed in action, 10th August 1917, by German shellfire whilst employed on Railway maintenance near Ypres, Belgium.

Commemorated: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.

Private Robert Dames is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Gunner Arthur Williams Dames, Royal Field Artillery, also fell in the Great War.