Second Lieutenant Robert Wallace Gilmour

Regiment: Inniskilling Fusiliers
Panel reference: Panel 38 to 40.
Date published: 26/04/1918
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 29/03/1918
Cemetery: Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France
Information: Second Lieutenant Robert Wallace Gilmour, Inniskilling Fusiliers, was killed in action in France on March 29th, 1918. He was the third son of the late Mr. William Gilmour and Mrs. Gilmour, The Diamond, Coleraine. On the outbreak of the war be was cashier in the Baggot Street branch of the Ulster Bank, but at once enlisted and, later, joined the Inns of Court O.T.C., from which he was posted to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He had seen a good deal of service in France, and was wounded at Messines in June last. Lieut. Gilmour was a grandson of the late Rev. Robert Wallace and a nephew of Sir William J. Baxter, D.L. Coleraine.