Robert Stewart Skinner Ingram
applied for a commission in the new army; he was to become one of the original
officers appointed to serve alongside Gilbert Tunstill.
Robert Stewart Skinner Ingram was
born on 7th November 1894 at Monkleigh in Devon, the youngest of no fewer than fifteen children of Thomas
Lewis Ingram, a prominent barrister, and his wife Victoria (nee Skinner). Thomas had spent most of his career in India, where many of the children had been born, but he and his wife had returned to England c.1912 and set up home in Wimbledon. Robert had been educated at Harrow, where he had
served five years in the Officer Training Corps. Ingram left Harrow in the
Summer of 1914 to go to Cambridge University to study medicine. However, following the outbreak
of war he instead opted to volunteer for the army. On 16th August he
completed his application for a commission; his good character being confirmed
by the Headmaster of Harrow.
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