Private in the Middlesex Regt.
Andrew Behan has researched this man: Private Robert Sheehy was born in 1877 in Hampstead. The 1901 census shows him living at 4 The Village, Hampstead, with his widowed mother, Maria, and elder sister, Elizabeth and being employed at the British Museum. In late 1906 he married Ellen Mary Swain in Thanet, Kent.
He enlisted in the 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, his service number was G/13729 and this would probably indicate a joining date in 1911 or 1912. He entered France on 14 December 1915 and at some point was transferred to the 880th Area Employment Company of the Labour Corps with a service number of 408820. He died, aged 41 years, from an illness on 23 April 1918 and is buried in Plot 29, Row L, Grave 3 in the Etaples Military Cemetery, Etaples, France. His widow was sent his army effects totalling £8-10s-8d on 25 June 1918 and a £13-0s-0d war gratuity on 7 January 1920.
He was posthumously awarded the 1914-1915 Star, the British War Medal 1914-1918 and the Victory Medal.
