16 May 2010

109567 2nd Lt Robert C Meikle, 1st Bn, DLI

109567 Second Lieutenant Robert Coulson Meikle of the 1st Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, died on the 16th May 1941. He was 24 years old, a chartered accountant by profession, and the son of Archie Miller Meikle and Emily Meikle of Monkseaton, Northumberland. He is buried in the Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery in Egypt.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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