Oldest known engraving of Burns Cottage 1805 When Robert was seven years old, his father sold his birth home and took possession of a 70 acre farm at Mount Oliphant.[6]Robert spent his youth there in poverty and had a very difficult childhood. All the manual labor Robert did on the farm...
OBITUARY. ROBERT VALENTINE BURNS, 1898-1967OBITUARY of Lieutenant. On demobilization he became Electrical Engineer tothe South-Eastern & Chatham Railway and prepared a scheme for electrification of their south-eastern suburbanlines (1918-23). In 1923 he joined the Southern Railway as Electrical ...