It was 81 years ago this month that Highlands residents learned of the death of Sergeant Willard H. Robertson, who was killed in battle in France on July 6, 1944. His mother, Mrs. Harriet Robertson, received the news of the death of one of her three military sons serving overseas in a communication from the War Department.
The Robertsons lived on Fourth Street and Sergeant Robertson was among the first of the local men who were called into service by the Selective Service before the war started. He had served three years in the National Guard and had attended Atlantic Highlands High School and had been serving overseas since January 1943. He was 29 years old.
Sergeant Robertson’s two brothers, Kermit and Thomas, are also both also currently overseas.
He is also survived by sisters Marie, Georgeanne, Alvina, Luella and Josephine, who is the wife of Highlands Police Chief Howard Monahan.
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