This is an epitaph memorial for Robert Elwood Sinclair as he is buried in France. For additional information, please visit 99 Lives: The Knox College Gold Star Memorial (knox.edu/99lives).
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See memorial for Robert buried in France #56342185
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Robert Elwood Sinclair, son of R.G. Sinclair, has fallen in France. Yesterday the telegram announcing his death "from pneumonia" came from the war department at Washington.
Hosts of friends of Robert, and of the family, have already hastened to assure the relatives of their heartfelt sympathy in the trial, and assurances of the appreciation of the lad's heroism in his enlistment have found full expression.
No particulars of the sickness and death are at hand, but from letters received it is evident that with others he was very busy, perhaps tired out, and fell the more easily when he was taken ill.
Robert Elwood Sinclair was born in Pontiac and was twenty-one years old on the 17th of August. He enlisted on the 8th day of May, sailed for France July 11, and died according to the telegram on September 30. When he left Galesburg he was in company with his neighbor playmate, Winfield Bartlett. They left America in the company of Major Bartlett, in the medical department.
Robert was a well known boy on the street where he lived, among Knox College students, and in the Presbyterian Bible School. He attended Knox in the Freshman year, but withdrew to assist his father in the business in which he is engaged. While in Knox he joined the Phi Gamma fraternity. He was strictly a home boy in the sense that he loved home more than any other place. He was gentle, pure and kind, helpful to all with whom he came in contact, and leaving the most wholesome impressions upon everybody. There was a diffidence about Robert which in a way prevented the fuller expression of his very high mental and original qualities. In his letters to his home there shines out a very peculiar and noble quality of mind, while the beauty of his character is revealed in many noble sentences in these letters.
To Robert in his service abroad there had come in the month of August the sad news that his mother had suddenly passed away. It was an added anxiety to the family here that the boy abroad should have to bear alone the burden of that grief. His letters responding to the tidings are beautiful letters, revealing at once the deepness of his sorrow and the certainty of his faith and trust.
(letter written to his brother quoted here - see attachment)
In such a noble strain writes this boy of our town, as he accepts his own great sorrow of the past summer. The sentences in such a letter reflect his own nobleness of spirit. And his own words will furnish to his father, his brothers, sisters and boy friends in town and college, undying comfort in the thought of his willing adventure and the end of it so suddenly announced.
Galesburg Register Mail - 1918
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See memorial for Robert buried in France #56342185
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Robert Elwood Sinclair, son of R.G. Sinclair, has fallen in France. Yesterday the telegram announcing his death "from pneumonia" came from the war department at Washington.
Hosts of friends of Robert, and of the family, have already hastened to assure the relatives of their heartfelt sympathy in the trial, and assurances of the appreciation of the lad's heroism in his enlistment have found full expression.
No particulars of the sickness and death are at hand, but from letters received it is evident that with others he was very busy, perhaps tired out, and fell the more easily when he was taken ill.
Robert Elwood Sinclair was born in Pontiac and was twenty-one years old on the 17th of August. He enlisted on the 8th day of May, sailed for France July 11, and died according to the telegram on September 30. When he left Galesburg he was in company with his neighbor playmate, Winfield Bartlett. They left America in the company of Major Bartlett, in the medical department.
Robert was a well known boy on the street where he lived, among Knox College students, and in the Presbyterian Bible School. He attended Knox in the Freshman year, but withdrew to assist his father in the business in which he is engaged. While in Knox he joined the Phi Gamma fraternity. He was strictly a home boy in the sense that he loved home more than any other place. He was gentle, pure and kind, helpful to all with whom he came in contact, and leaving the most wholesome impressions upon everybody. There was a diffidence about Robert which in a way prevented the fuller expression of his very high mental and original qualities. In his letters to his home there shines out a very peculiar and noble quality of mind, while the beauty of his character is revealed in many noble sentences in these letters.
To Robert in his service abroad there had come in the month of August the sad news that his mother had suddenly passed away. It was an added anxiety to the family here that the boy abroad should have to bear alone the burden of that grief. His letters responding to the tidings are beautiful letters, revealing at once the deepness of his sorrow and the certainty of his faith and trust.
(letter written to his brother quoted here - see attachment)
In such a noble strain writes this boy of our town, as he accepts his own great sorrow of the past summer. The sentences in such a letter reflect his own nobleness of spirit. And his own words will furnish to his father, his brothers, sisters and boy friends in town and college, undying comfort in the thought of his willing adventure and the end of it so suddenly announced.
Galesburg Register Mail - 1918
This is an epitaph memorial for Robert Elwood Sinclair as he is buried in France. For additional information, please visit 99 Lives: The Knox College Gold Star Memorial (knox.edu/99lives).
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See memorial for Robert buried in France #56342185
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Robert Elwood Sinclair, son of R.G. Sinclair, has fallen in France. Yesterday the telegram announcing his death "from pneumonia" came from the war department at Washington.
Hosts of friends of Robert, and of the family, have already hastened to assure the relatives of their heartfelt sympathy in the trial, and assurances of the appreciation of the lad's heroism in his enlistment have found full expression.
No particulars of the sickness and death are at hand, but from letters received it is evident that with others he was very busy, perhaps tired out, and fell the more easily when he was taken ill.
Robert Elwood Sinclair was born in Pontiac and was twenty-one years old on the 17th of August. He enlisted on the 8th day of May, sailed for France July 11, and died according to the telegram on September 30. When he left Galesburg he was in company with his neighbor playmate, Winfield Bartlett. They left America in the company of Major Bartlett, in the medical department.
Robert was a well known boy on the street where he lived, among Knox College students, and in the Presbyterian Bible School. He attended Knox in the Freshman year, but withdrew to assist his father in the business in which he is engaged. While in Knox he joined the Phi Gamma fraternity. He was strictly a home boy in the sense that he loved home more than any other place. He was gentle, pure and kind, helpful to all with whom he came in contact, and leaving the most wholesome impressions upon everybody. There was a diffidence about Robert which in a way prevented the fuller expression of his very high mental and original qualities. In his letters to his home there shines out a very peculiar and noble quality of mind, while the beauty of his character is revealed in many noble sentences in these letters.
To Robert in his service abroad there had come in the month of August the sad news that his mother had suddenly passed away. It was an added anxiety to the family here that the boy abroad should have to bear alone the burden of that grief. His letters responding to the tidings are beautiful letters, revealing at once the deepness of his sorrow and the certainty of his faith and trust.
(letter written to his brother quoted here - see attachment)
In such a noble strain writes this boy of our town, as he accepts his own great sorrow of the past summer. The sentences in such a letter reflect his own nobleness of spirit. And his own words will furnish to his father, his brothers, sisters and boy friends in town and college, undying comfort in the thought of his willing adventure and the end of it so suddenly announced.
Galesburg Register Mail - 1918
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See memorial for Robert buried in France #56342185
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Robert Elwood Sinclair, son of R.G. Sinclair, has fallen in France. Yesterday the telegram announcing his death "from pneumonia" came from the war department at Washington.
Hosts of friends of Robert, and of the family, have already hastened to assure the relatives of their heartfelt sympathy in the trial, and assurances of the appreciation of the lad's heroism in his enlistment have found full expression.
No particulars of the sickness and death are at hand, but from letters received it is evident that with others he was very busy, perhaps tired out, and fell the more easily when he was taken ill.
Robert Elwood Sinclair was born in Pontiac and was twenty-one years old on the 17th of August. He enlisted on the 8th day of May, sailed for France July 11, and died according to the telegram on September 30. When he left Galesburg he was in company with his neighbor playmate, Winfield Bartlett. They left America in the company of Major Bartlett, in the medical department.
Robert was a well known boy on the street where he lived, among Knox College students, and in the Presbyterian Bible School. He attended Knox in the Freshman year, but withdrew to assist his father in the business in which he is engaged. While in Knox he joined the Phi Gamma fraternity. He was strictly a home boy in the sense that he loved home more than any other place. He was gentle, pure and kind, helpful to all with whom he came in contact, and leaving the most wholesome impressions upon everybody. There was a diffidence about Robert which in a way prevented the fuller expression of his very high mental and original qualities. In his letters to his home there shines out a very peculiar and noble quality of mind, while the beauty of his character is revealed in many noble sentences in these letters.
To Robert in his service abroad there had come in the month of August the sad news that his mother had suddenly passed away. It was an added anxiety to the family here that the boy abroad should have to bear alone the burden of that grief. His letters responding to the tidings are beautiful letters, revealing at once the deepness of his sorrow and the certainty of his faith and trust.
(letter written to his brother quoted here - see attachment)
In such a noble strain writes this boy of our town, as he accepts his own great sorrow of the past summer. The sentences in such a letter reflect his own nobleness of spirit. And his own words will furnish to his father, his brothers, sisters and boy friends in town and college, undying comfort in the thought of his willing adventure and the end of it so suddenly announced.
Galesburg Register Mail - 1918
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Robert Elwood
Sinclair
1897-1918
AT REST IN FRANCE
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