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Robert Edward Vitler 1897-1917
 

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Robert Edward Vitler

 



 

 

 


Private Robert Edward Vitler

of  Middlesex Regiment, 16th Battalion
died on
10 October 1917, aged 21

He is remembered with honour
 at  Bleuet Farm Cemetery, Belgium

 

 

   

Bleuet Farm was used as a dressing station during 1917 Allied offensive on this front. The cemetery was begun in a corner of the farm and was in use from June to December 1917, though a few of the burials are of later date. Two graves were brought into the cemetery after the Armistice from isolated positions close by. There are now 442 First World War burials in the cemetery and nine from the Second World War, all dating from the Allied retreat to Dunkirk in May 1940. The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.

Casualty information reproduced by kind permission of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission