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{{Personnel
|id=303
|Surname and forenames=Nesbitt Robert
|Army number=2759980
|Rank=Private.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Black Watch at Recruiting Centre, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish 13/3/40 (Probably under the scheme which allowed direct recruitment to the Battalion).  Served in Northern France with the B.E.F. Taken Prisoner of War - date not recorded but around 20/5/1940.  Repatriated to the UK.  Posted ? Bn Black Watch.  Discharged under King's Regulations 1940 Para 390 (xviii)G 6/3/46.  Re-enlisted in the Royal Armoured Corps as 21001144, Discharged 1952.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Date of birth=Not yet known.
|Age=(At time of death)Not yet known.  
|Company/Battery=A Company.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Probably Rifleman.
|Joined Brigade=13/3/1940.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not as far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Yes - Stalag XXA, PoW Number 5174.
|Home address=46, Randell St. Dunston-on-Tyne.
|Source table=1TS
}}