Robert Kendall was born in East Dereham, Norfolk and was a professional soldier who had served in India and South Africa before the First World War. He met his wife Charlotte Winterton from Greetham while she was working as a housmaid at Lyng Rectory in Norwich. They married while Robert was on leave in August 1915 and the couple set up home in Pond Lane, Greetham. Robert served with the 1st Battalion Norfolk Regiment and had been promoted Srgeant when he was wounded in action in France. He was brought back to Britain and died in the King George Military Hospital in London on 29 April 1918. He was 32. He is buried in Greetham's churchyard and has a Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone but is not on the village war memorial inside the church.

Photograph of Robert courtesy of the David Bland Collection published in Greetham and the Great War where we have obtained much of our information about Robert.