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Second-Lieutenant Robson, of the Black Watch, who prior to the war was a schoolmaster in Liverpool, has been wounded, and is in the Stationary Hospital, Abbeville. His condition is reported as satisfactory.

He has served on the staff of Birchfield Road Council Schools and Emmanuel Council Schools. He was a member of the Aliens Rugby Football Club and of the Anfield Cricket Club.

The officer was in Brussels when the war broke out, and with difficulty escaped in the guise of a Belgian peasant, entering the Dutch frontier at Alost with a number of Belgian refugees. Reaching Ostend, he was fortunately able, amid thousands clamouring to get away, to find a berth on board a vessel leaving for England. This was owing to the hospitality of a lady whom he knew, who had secured a state cabin. After returning to England he joined the Scots Guards. He took part in many important engagements with his regiment.