Captain Robert Clifford Orr

Regiment: Somerset Light Infantry
Date published: 22/01/1915
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 19/12/1914
Age at death: 34
Cemetery: Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium
Plot: II. C. 3.
Information: Captain Robert Clifford Orr, Somerset Light Infantry, who has been killed in action, was reported missing on the 19th December. He was a son of the late Mr. R. U. Orr, Solicitor, Belfast and Ballymena, who was joint secretary of the Ulster Unionist Convention, 1892, and a nephew of His Honour James Orr, K.C. He is a member of the firm of Messrs. F. and H. Orr, Solicitors, Ballymena, and before the war he was Adjutant of the North Antrim Regiment Ulster Volunteer Force. Captain Orr was educated at Rugby, and was admitted as a Solicitor in 1903. In December, 1911, he received his commission as Lieutenant in the 3rd Batt. Somerset Light Infantry, and was promoted Captain in August last.