The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-14

any pride or grief there may be about it can be shared by Alabama, where he was born
 When he returned from the States soon after the war commenced, he got a commission at once as second lieutenant
 in the Kings Own Lancaster regiment in a local battalion and went through his course of training in an infantry regi- ment, when, at his own wish and owing to his having a knowledge of gasoline engines and the German language, and having the spirit of adventure, he was attached to the Royal Flying corps and soon learned to fly. He had some two
 months training at various flying schools here, and in about two months got his wings as pilot and observer, and be- came a very efficient airman, I under stand one of the very best we had After flying several types of machines, he got promoted to the First squadron, R. F. C., flying First Morane scouts, and I under stand did very good work over the Ger man lines On January 12 he went out on reconnaissance when there was antici- patton of a German attack in concentra- ton behind Lille, and did not return and was unofficially reported missing One hears that he was brought down by two German airmen, Lieutenants Immelrnann and Boelke, vixen returning, who were flying a new, powerful type of monoplane CdlleQ the FOkKer, ana HIIeF d Ouel III the air with first one and then the other at a height of 12,000 feet, he is reported to have | been shot through the head and brought down. On January 30 a German airman | flew over our lines with a messa ge at- l tached to long streamer, which said | that Robin had been killed on the 18th, and had been buried by the Germans with | military honors at the cemetery at Rou- l baiX.
 WANTS FRIENDS TO KNOW You will be sorry ohear this, I know. , Will you tell G. B. and Robbins friends at Woodward and elsewhere, and any of way the last of the breed to carry on i the name, as his cousin my nephew, went down with his ship earlier on in the war. 'I am here busy making munitions, and we have altered the personnel of the old company here bit. and I don't quite know how long I will be with it. Mary, my daughter, made a war marriage, and | her husband is with the motor machine l section. My wife and the two small girls are all right and quite brave. l don 1 quite know when this war is going to get l over, but it will get settled one of these 1 days. Yours sincerely,
 ALBERT E. BARTON" "Erskine Ramsay, Esq, Pratt Consoli- 1 dated. Birmingham, Ala.'
 JOINED COLCRS AT ONCE l MT. Ramsay was well acquainted with 1 the young man and states he was a fine, ! manly fellow, with excellent prospects Almost with the firing of the first gun
 Robin notified MT. Ramsay of his itnen- l ton to join the kings colors, stating that ! he would not look his family or friends l in the face if he stayed away when his [ college class had volunteered to a man | Whj1a if ia nn1U fn0 m l home in that war stricken land, whether castle or cottage, is mourning the loss of l one or more loved ones, the fact that
 Robert Barton was the last of his line
 makes his death all the more sad, and l many friends of Mir. and Mrs. Barton here extend to them their heartfelt sympathy 1 in this their great bereavement