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Thanks Wayne, great to hear from you.  My email address is (This may be removed by the site Moderator for security reasons).  I now have a wealth of info on 295SB and willing to share info and the photos that I have.  Not sure if Arthur Willey's army records exist, but he has intrigued me as I lived in York for 9 years and know The Mount area where he lived.  I live in north Leeds currently.  You may know that he was killed the same day as colleagues Tyson & Gatland, all buried side by side.  Tyson was hit by a shell and killed instantly (as they always say!) so it could be that all three were killed together.  I hope Arthur is on the photos that I have & would be glad to see yours eventually. Look forward to hearing from you further.  I prefer to post things, so will need your address too.   Kind regards, Mike.

Sandra/Ciderdrinker etc........   Assuming you have access to Ancestry, can you look at the two entries for A.E. Robson in the UK Railway Employment records 1833-1956 for me & let me know the details.  Very grateful.  Thanks, Mike.

UPDATED:     Well, well, well.  I have found that Albert was convicted of rape & sentenced in 1893 to 7 years at Portland prison, south coast of England.  He was released early on 8/3/1900 so I reckon he did sail later that year from nearby Southampton to South Africa.
           After this, it seems that he then went to Buffalo City in the USA where he died 16/3/1902, so with no death cert. maybe his violent past continued with him and possibly came to a violent end there. If he was killed or even put to death, then I would have thought there would be some record. He left £191 which in today's values seems to be circa £22,000.    The plot has certainly thickened, but please do keep this topic in mind.   Regards everyone.  Mike.

Could anybody kindly look me up an entry in the crime registers for my likely ancestor:
Albert Edward Robson, born 1868 in Leeds.  Lived mainly in Doncaster.  There should be criminal entries for him in 1893 at York, series MEP06 and HO140.
           I would love to have full details of his misdemeanors.  A carriage trimmer/cabinet maker by trade, his wife Alice died young in 1894 in Doncaster.  Albert himself later went to the city of Buffalo in the USA where he died young in 1902, leaving two daughters in England.
        Many thanks indeed.

Many thanks for these replies, much appreciated. Yes, that year was 1898 and the 2 kids ages were at 1902, but I am guessing they were not with him.  I have no other info., so don't know why he was there; maybe looking for a new start etc. etc.  No known family in the USA.
  UK access to some sites hasn't worked, eg burials A-Z only stuck on "A", like the newspaper websites.  A needle in a haystack job I know, but let me know if anything turns up.    He could have remarried I suppose.  His original work in the UK was carriage trimmer, probably at the big Doncaster railroad industry.
 A year or two ago, for fifty dollars, the library sent me an official certificate to say that a death certificate had not been found.   The UK admin just states that he was "of the City of Buffalo in the United States of America".
       The surname is not rare, and there is a UK passenger list entry for a "Mr.A.E.Robson, year of birth 1868, occupation builder. Left Southampton UK on 31st March 1900 to Durban (Port Natal).  The name and birth year fit, not the occupation, but who knows!!  There is a Buffalo in South Africa, so could the UK admin be a human writing error (!)  I gather records in SA are hard to find, but I may put out an APB.  My thanks again, and do keep in touch if anyone comes across anything. Regards to all.  Mike.