[courtesy of David G. Briggs]
Vault marker for Cecil D.
and Naomi B. Robertson in the Mausoleum, Lot 223b, Grave 4, Allegheny
Cemetery, Pittsburgh (Allegheny county), Pennsylvania.
Cecil registered for the draft in Spartanburg, South
Carolina on 16 February 1942 and was inducted into the Army at
Pittsburgh, PA on 28 April 1942. His date of
arrival in the 508th is not known but Sgt Robertson was listed in 3rd
Anniversary book photo of men recently arrived in Co I.
He was discharged on 7 November 1945.
On 6 May 1946 he married Naomi Buchanan in Belmont, OH.
Cecil
succumbed at the age of 47 to a lymphomic cancer in the
Presbyterian-University Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA on 28 November 1967. |