Sapper Ernest Robinson, 522390, 486th Field Company Royal Engineers, was killed in action in Egypt on March 27th, 1917. Born in 1896, he was an orphan living with step-parents Joseph and Sarah Bent at 54 Boyle Street, Luton.

Ernest had joined up two months after the outbreak of war and was wounded in the leg in training when a trench was blown up. Subsequently he came unscathed through the Gallipoli campaign before being drafted to Egypt with his unit.

Ernest had been adopted as a child by Mrs Bent after his mother, Jane, died in 1908. His eldest sister, Beatrice, had married Walter Parr in Newmarket in 1910 and was looking after younger sisters Lily and Annie at 8 Curson Street, Luton. He also had an older brother, Arthur, living in Hammersmith, London.