Robert Hyslop

Robert Hyslop is remembered on Cumnock War Memorial and Thiepval Memorial in France.

from Cumnock Chronicle

The Cumnock lad John Logan who was beside him when he was killed also died.

Name:	Robert Hyslop
Birth Place:	Cumnock, Ayrshire
Residence:	Auchinleck, Ayrshire
Death Date:	15 Sep 1916
Death Place:	France and Flanders
Enlistment Place:	Cumnock
Rank:	Private
Regiment:	Royal Scots Fusiliers
Battalion:	6 7th Battalion
Regimental Number:	12770
Type of Casualty:	Killed in action
Theatre of War:	Western European Theatre

CWGC

With no surviving service record or details of relations or date of birth it is difficult to be sure who he is.

There are at least 3 Robert Hyslops in the time frame.

 1901 census
1 son of cement worker Thomas Hyslop and Jane in Kilnholm Place age 6
2  son of miner Robert and Annie Hyslop of Ayr rd age 17
3  son of Robert and Jane of Ayr Rd a joiner aged 17 (no, he went to USA and was drafted in September 1918 in Hamden, Massachussetts)


Update: The Cumnock Chronicle notes he was the husband of Elizabeth Byrne. I pulled the marriage certificate and he is no. 2, the son of Robert Hyslop and Annie Miller. They were married in 1908 and his address was Waterside Place. He was a coal miner.  They had a son, also Robert, born in 1910 and 2 daughters Rachel and Elizabeth. The 3 children were baptised in St John's Cumnock a month after their father's death.

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